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‖ feria Eccl.|ˈfɪərɪə|
[L. fēria holiday (see fair n.), in late L. used with prefixed ordinal for ‘day of the week’; thus secunda feria = Monday; but Sunday (Dominicus, Dominica) and Saturday (Sabbatum) were usually spoken of by their names.
In Portuguese segunda, terça, etc. feira are still the current names of the days of the week.]
1. A day of the week; a weekday, esp. an ordinary weekday as opposed to a festival. greater feria: a particular day of a certain week, that has an office or commemoration proper to it, as Ash Wednesday, Monday in Rogation Week, etc.
1853Card. Wiseman Ess. III. 76 note, The Sundays and ferias of Lent and Advent. 1866F. G. Lee Direct. Angl. (ed. 3) 354 Feria, a week day on which no holiday falls. 1883Black in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9) XVI. 510/2 It [the Roman missal] contains the proper introit, collect..for the festivals and ferias connected with the ecclesiastical seasons.
2. [Sp.] = fair n.1 1.
1844J. Gregg Commerce Prairies II. 85 At certain seasons of the year, there are held regular ferias, at which people assemble in great numbers, as well of sellers as of purchasers. [1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain v. 43 The Spanish term Feria signifies at once a religious function, a holiday, and a fair.] 1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon iv. 41 The local fairs of ferias, which usually commence on the Saint's day of the town. 1939Spender & Gili tr. Lorca's Poems 123 How dazzling in the feria! 1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia iv. 43 In provincial ferias, the unboxing of the bulls..is an event worth seeing. |