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Meanings of movable feast in English

Portuguese
festa móvel

A religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years.

festa móvel
Usage of movable feast in English
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You see, on weekdays his lunch is at best a movable feast.
The "Goldfish" / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man
2
The rep circuit is no longer a stable fixture, but a movable feast.
The Guardian
3
Some acute observer has said that 'age is a movable feast.'
For Woman's Love
4
For the second successive week England's chosen starting XV are proving a movable feast.
The Guardian
5
Since their inception in the late 1990s, Food have been the proverbial movable feast.
The Irish Times
6
Though breakfast might be a movable feast at Madame's, it was always consistently late.
Old Rose and Silver
7
Therein lay the conundrum of course, for in this context wasn't sincerity a movable feast?
Complete Books of Blood
8
But then sanity was a movable feast wasn't it?
Complete Books of Blood
9
Why is a diner on board a steam-boat like Easter Day?-Becauseit is a movable feast.
Games for Hallow-e'en
10
Often, the big-stakes players were forced to locate a movable feast, otherwise known as a floating game.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
11
Treatment of anxiety is a movable feast.
News.com.au
12
But that's always a slightly movable feast.
The Guardian
13
Luncheon's admittedly a movable feast, isn't it?
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
14
Because it is a movable feast.
My Book of Indoor Games
15
They were all seated at the table already-supperis not a movable feast in that well-regulatedestablishment-saveAunt Elizabeth.
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
16
A movable feast:Let's face it, Christmas is a lot of work, what with all that planning, shopping and cooking.
The Irish Times
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Translations for movable feast
Portuguese
festa móvel
Movable feast across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common