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feria

fe·ria

UK/ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/ US/ˈfɛriʌ/ uncommon slang

noun

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”
  • “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

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