Example sentences for: festa

How can you use “festa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Indeed, the word festive comes from the word feast which derives from the Latin festa which was a feastal ceremony.

  • 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.


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