Meanings
comparative more festivally · superlative most festivally
- informalrareResembling or characteristic of a festival.
So you're much more part of the community if you go out and do festivally things.
2016, Jodie Taylor, Andy Bennett, The Festivalization of Culture, page 120
comparative more festivally · superlative most festivally
- obsoleterareIn a festive manner.
These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […]
1857, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, page 346
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