The vigil of a festival (and senses thence derived). The local annual festival of an English (now chiefly rural) parish, observed (originally on the…

A communal feast or festival, (in early use) esp. one associated with a church or parish; a fair, a wake (wake, n.1 4b). archaic, historical, and E…

An annual feast or banquet, formerly observed in some parishes in Kent, the cost being provided by money bequeathed for that purpose.

British. An annual village or town festival originally held on the feast day of the saint to whom the parish church is dedicated, but now more…

dialect. A village ‘feast’ or fair (taking place on the festival of the patron saint of the parish).

In Yorkshire (esp. Halifax): a local festival; a feast, wake, etc. Thump Sunday n. the Sunday of the annual fair or festival week.