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Meanings of fete day in English

Portuguese
festividade
Catalan
festivitat
Spanish
día de fiesta

A day designated for feasting.

festividade
Usage of fete day in English
1
It was a fete day and the wolves were singing and dancing.
The new yorker
2
This was to be a fete day in the royal palace of Berlin.
Frederick the Great and His Court
3
Another abbot, in the richly-embroidered habiliments of a fete day, stood by his side.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
4
Saturday, the fifteenth of August, was as little like a religious fete day as one can imagine.
My Home in the Field of Honor
5
Some persons saw the 25th of August, which was the fete day of the Empress, arrive with feelings of curiosity.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 08
6
To-morrow their lands will be given them and the boundaries determined, but let to-day be a fete day, a day of rejoicing.
Mohammed Ali and His House
7
Yesterday was a fete day, and the base of the column and half its height are lost in a mass of flowers and evergreens.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
8
Although it is a fete day you will be my witness that we have not found a man off duty or the worse for drink.
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
9
The New Yorker, July 25, 1970 P. 77 Description of the celebration on July 14th of Bastille Day, France's greatest annual fete day.
The new yorker
10
As in all French towns Argentan knows how to decorate on fete days.
Normandy: The Scenery & Romance of Its Ancient Towns, Complete
11
This is the National Fete day of France.
Madame Chrysantheme — Volume 1
12
On grand fete days, when etiquette demands it, we shall dine together, but preside at separate tables.
Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
13
The king had forbidden that the churches should be opened except on Sunday and the regular fete days.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
14
These days of hard work become fete days, as the owner stakes his honour on serving a good meal.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
15
But the firm also forgot to allow for the ecclesiastical calendar, and the stoppage of work on the numberless fete days.
Lectures and Essays
16
All the pleasures of girlhood, even her fete days, were dearly purchased, for she was scolded for her gaiety as much as for her faults.
The Lily of the Valley
Translations for fete day
Portuguese
festividade
Catalan
festivitat