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Example sentences for: festa
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Viana do Castelo: Festa da Nossa Senhora da Agonia (Our Lady of Agony Festivities): famous religious festival with traditional costumes and fireworks over the river.
Festa de San Pedoa (29 June): Boisterous Christian tribute to Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, in Melaka, where the Portuguese community has its fishing boats blessed.
Vila do Conde: Festa do Corpo de Deus procession in the historic section of town with the streets covered in flowers.
Festa itself derives from festus which probably, according to etymologists, had the same root as feria fair.
Indeed, the word festive comes from the word feast which derives from the Latin festa which was a feastal ceremony.