feastly

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adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivefeastly (comparative more feastly, superlative most feastly)

comparative more feastly · superlative most feastly

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.

    So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for […]

    1994, University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international
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    Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.

    2003, Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishfestlich
  2. Englishfeastly

From Middle English festlich, equivalent to feast + -ly. Compare Dutch feestelijk (“festive”), German festlich (“festive, solemn”), Danish and Swedish festlig (“festive, solemn”).

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