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FESTAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does festal mean?
• FESTAL (adjective)
The adjective FESTAL has 1 sense:
1. offering fun and gaiety
Familiarity information: FESTAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offering fun and gaiety
Synonyms:
Context example:
a merry evening
Similar:
joyous (full of or characterized by joy)
Context examples
We were, as I have said, in the dining-room: the lustre, which had been lit for dinner, filled the room with a festal breadth of light; the large fire was all red and clear; the purple curtains hung rich and ample before the lofty window and loftier arch; everything was still, save the subdued chat of Adele (she dared not speak loud), and, filling up each pause, the beating of winter rain against the panes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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