Feria
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Feria![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Feria \Fe"ri*a\, n.; pl. Feri[ae]. (Eccl.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. --Shipley. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
feria
n 1: a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated;
"in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal
number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria'
meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by
their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to
mean an ordinary weekday"
2: (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair,
usually in honor of some patron saint
Matching Word(s) Feriae Ferial Ceria Ferie ferial beria
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