midnight feast
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midnight feast — noun A secret feast held during the night, esp by children • • • Main Entry: ↑midnight … Useful english dictionary
midnight feast — /mɪdnaɪt ˈfist/ (say midnuyt feest) noun a feast at midnight, especially a secret feast in a school dormitory or children s bedroom …
feast — feast1 [fi:st] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: feste occasion of celebration , from Latin festum] 1.) a large meal where a lot of people celebrate a special occasion →↑banquet ▪ a wedding feast ▪ The king promised to hold a great feast… … Dictionary of contemporary English
feast — 1 noun (C) 1 a large meal for a lot of people, to celebrate a special occasion: a wedding feast | hold a feast: A great feast was held in Columbus s honour. 2 a very good, large meal: Jane s mother had cooked us a real feast. | midnight feast (=a … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
midnight — [[t]mɪ̱dnaɪt[/t]] ♦♦♦ 1) N UNCOUNT: usu prep N Midnight is twelve o clock in the middle of the night. It was well after midnight by the time Anne returned to her apartment... The entrance gates were locked at midnight. 2) ADJ: ADJ n Midnight is… … English dictionary
midnight — noun (U) 1 12 o clock at night: We close at midnight. | the midnight train to Glasgow compare midday 2 midnight feast a secret meal eaten late at night, especially by children see also: burn the midnight oil burn 1 (24) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
midnight — noun VERB + MIDNIGHT ▪ chime, strike ▪ The church clock struck midnight. MIDNIGHT + VERB ▪ strike ▪ Downstairs in the hall, midnight struck … Collocations dictionary
Feast of the seven fishes — Southern Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes, also known as La Vigilia (Italian: the vigil ). It is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. Some Italian families have been… … Wikipedia
feast of the seven fishes — an Italian tradition on Christmas Eve (La Vigilia or the vigil in Italian, commemorating the midnight birth of Jesus). The meal consists of seven seafoods including fish and other marine organisms, e.g. anchovies, sardines, dried salt cod, smelts … Dictionary of ichthyology
Eve of a Feast — • In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the… … Catholic encyclopedia
