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Brewer's: Feasts

Anniversary days of joy. They are either immovable or movable. The chief immovable feasts are the four rent-days—viz. the Annunciation or Lady-Day (March 25th), the Nativity of John the…

The Feast of Love

Author:Charles Baxter Pantheon Books High in the ranks of under-read and under-appreciated writers, along with Lydia Davis and Mary Robison, Baxter is best known for his provocative short…

feast

(Encyclopedia) feast, commemorative banquet symbolizing communal unity. Generally associated with primitive rituals and later with religious practices, feasts may also commemorate such events as…

koto

(Encyclopedia) kotokotokōˈtō [key], a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings.…

Date of Easter

The Question: Why does Easter occur at different times each year? The Answer: Easter, for Western churches, is calculated as the first Sunday…

Brewer's: Feast of Reason

There St. John [Sin-jn] mingles with the friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope: Imitations of Horace, ii. 1. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Egg Feast

In Oxford the Saturday preceding Shrove Tuesday is so called; it is also called Egg-Saturday, because pasch eggs are provided for the students on that day. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Ram Feast

(The). May morning is so called at Holne, near Dartmoor, because on that day a ram is run down in the “Ploy Field.” It is roasted whole, with its skin and fur, close by a granite pillar.…

The Devil's Dictionary: Feast

by Ambrose Bierce FASHIONFELONFEAST -n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for…

Brewer's: Barmecide's Feast

A feast where there is nothing to eat; any illusion. Barmecide asked Schacabac, a poor, starving wretch, to dinner, and set before him an empty plate. “How do you like your soup?” asked…