Meanings of festal occasions in English

Where there is much foreign influence Dayak women have adopted this fashion for festal occasions.

He was accustomed to overlook the little delinquencies of his fellows on such festal occasions as State Conventions.

He was of a white colour, that seemed to fit him rather for rare festal occasions than for constant drudgery.

Armorers and furbishers of weapons were as much in request as the more appropriate artists who minister to such festal occasions.

At one end is a small gallery, used as the mainstay for the temporary orchestra, which is erected on festal occasions.

Here on festal occasions had been banked brilliant military and ecclesiastical uniforms, a setting for Grand Duchesses....

It is earthly relationships that receive their consecration thereby, and in correspondence are the natural festal occasions presented by the vicissitudes of life.

She still possessed the pearl necklace and other ornaments of more prosperous days, and on festal occasions they did not remain in a chest.

One of them, indeed, has become pre-eminently the national song of Norway, and may be heard wherever Norsemen are gathered together upon festal occasions.

I cannot say whether, amongst the Euahlayi, there was a recognised licence as to exchange of wives on these festal occasions, or at boorahs.

* Some persons indulged in homespun cloth for Sunday and festal occasions, but the common outside garments were made of dressed deerskins.