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- verb Present participle of
feast . - noun A
feast , or an occasion on which people or animalsfeast
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- noun eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
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Examples
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In Cholula, many families opt to attend the Misa de Gallo, the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, and do not begin feasting until afterward.
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In Cholula, many families opt to attend the Misa de Gallo, the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, and do not begin feasting until afterward.
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Why then, when a burst of hiccups interrupts the feasting, is the mood as it must have been, aboard the engine-less Jumbo on its precipitous descent?
Archive 2008-01-20 Newmania 2008
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Why then, when a burst of hiccups interrupts the feasting, is the mood as it must have been, aboard the engine-less Jumbo on its precipitous descent?
Drop The Pilot Newmania 2008
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I am sticking this recipe in my cap — it will be a nice treat to have after all the feasting is over and we head into the lean months.
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Now, fellow astronauts, I need to collapse on the floor somewhere, so begin feasting on these audio treats without me ...
December 16th, 2006 z0mbieastronaut 2006
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Nile,593 and squandering the rest of my money in feasting and carousing till the time drew near for the departure of my uncles, when I fled from them and hid myself.
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They passed the day in feasting and wine-drinking and diversion and delight till night-fall, when they supped and prayed the sundown prayers, and the night orisons; after which they sat conversing and carousing, and Nasir and Mansur fell to telling stories whilst Abdullah hearkened.
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The only recreation mentioned besides feasting is exercising their arms (guns).
The Volokh Conspiracy » The First Thanksgiving (the original account). 2004
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On either of these unsavory dishes, with a biscuit and a glass or two of Rhine wine, he cared not how sour, he called feasting sumptuously.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
bilby commented on the word feasting
If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.
I answer not, and I return no more!
- John James Ingalls, 'Opportunity'.
September 15, 2009