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fiesta|fiːˈɛstə|
[Sp., feast.]
In Spain or Spanish America, a religious festival; also, any festivity or holiday. Also transf.
1844J. Gregg Commerce Prairies I. 208 These carretas..[are] the ‘pleasure-carriages’ of the rancheros, whose families are conveyed in them to the towns..or to fiestas. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. Trav. Spain I. iii. 332/2 The Fiestas are of the highest order. 1910‘O. Henry’ Whirligigs v. 71 There are bathing and fiestas and bull⁓fights and scandal. 1923Blackw. Mag. Nov. 697/1 The failure of the great June fiestas owing to continued rains. 1934J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey x. 341 An agricultural fiesta. 1966Illustr. London News 26 Feb. 2 Seek out the island of sun, gaiety, carnivals, fiestas, a casino. |