movable feast

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movable feast (plural movable feasts)

  1. A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
    • 2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317:
      The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.

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