[It. festa:—L. festa (see FEAST sb.).] A feast, festival, holy day; also attrib.

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1818.  Shelley, Lett., Pr. Wks. 1888, II. 242. The day on which I visited it, was festa.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VII. 966.

        Set me down there, a happy child again,
Sure that to-morrow would be festa-day,
Hearing my parents praise past festas more,
And seeing they were old if I was young.

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1886.  Ruskin, Præterita, I. xii. 391. The day it [painting] came home was a festa, and many a day after, in looking at it, and fancying the hills and the rain were real.

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