festal

How To Use festal In A Sentence

• It starts outside the church with the lighting of new fire and the Paschal Candle followed by a full Easter service and Festal evensong at 6.30 pm.
• By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured. Under the Country Sky
• On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
• Two candelabra, with four candles each, lighted up festally the room which had waited so many years for the wandering nephew. A Personal Record
• Dr David Hope praised the Queen's ‘unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith’ during her 50-year reign at a special festal evensong at York Minster.
• In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances. The Abominations of Modern Society
• Henriette, having gone about all the morning in petticoat and bed-jacket, began to prepare herself festally directly the midday-meal was over. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
• This suggests that - as in the case of meat - olive oil may have been a fairly regular element of Bronze Age festal and other diets.
• Various on-site locations are unique loci of festal carnality.
• It was eaten with a spoon and served on festal days as part of the main course.