feastly

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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feastly (comparative more feastly, superlative most feastly)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
    • 1994, University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international:
      So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for []
    • 2003, Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history:
      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.

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