moveable feast

Noun

Meaning

a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

movable feast bastille barbican bash ball meat feed drink cooking bread affair celebration meal fare snack

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Antonyms

snack food appy event with a fixed date fixed date event fixed date holiday fixed date

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Hypernyms

feast day fete day

Hyponyms

passover easter Pesach Pesah Feast of the Unleavened Bread

Examples

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. Andrew O'Hagan

For example, the start of Advent is the Sunday nearest November 30. In addition, the observance of some fixed feasts may move a few days in a particular year to not clash with that year's date for a more important moveable feast. Source: Internet

That mos gallicanus (French custom) bound to a moveable feast was introduced in France by king Philip Augustus (1165–1180–1223), maybe to establish a new style in the provinces reconquered from England. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

moveable alphabet moveable date moveable event moveable feast holiday moveable holiday moveableness