Feast of Fools
: a medieval burlesque festival held especially in France usually on the feast of the Circumcision (January l), a prominent feature being mummeries such as a burlesque of the high mass conducted by the lower clergy under a leader elected for the occasion with a burlesque title
Word History
Etymology
translation of Medieval Latin festum stultorum
- drippings
- dripple
- drippled
- dripples
- drippling
- drippy
- drips
- dripstone
- dripstones
- dript
- drisheen
- drisk
- drite
- drivabilities
- drivability
- drivable
- drivage
- drive
- drive (away or off)
- drive (into)
- drive (someone) mad
- drive (someone) to an early grave
- drive (someone) up a/the wall
- drive a hard bargain
- drive a wedge between