moveable feast
Date-shifting holiday
A moveable feast is a religious holiday that falls on different calendar dates each year, calculated by formulas rather than fixed to a date.
Easter is the prime example, shifting annually based on lunar cycles.
The phrase extends to any occasion without a set time: Thanksgiving dinner at our house is a moveable feast—whenever everyone can make it.
Hemingway's memoir *A Moveable Feast* gave the phrase literary currency, suggesting something portable yet nourishing.
Also spelled movable feast.
Resurrection commemoration day
- PassoverFestival of liberation
- PentecostSpirit's arrival celebration
- LentChristian fasting season
- Holy WeekDays preceding Easter Sunday
Good Friday · Palm Sunday · lunar calendar · ecclesiastical · church year · spring equinox · paschal · liturgy
France's chief city
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- 1920sPost-WWI American decade
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
Gertrude Stein · Fitzgerald · café · literary · nostalgia · reminiscence · bohemian · Left Bank
Able to bend freely
- portableAble to be carried
- adjustableAble to be changed
- transposableAble to switch positions
- relocatableAble to be moved
shifting · wandering · itinerant · traveling · nomadic · roaming · unfixed · floating
Easter
Resurrection commemoration day
Holy Week · Good Friday · Palm Sunday · lunar calendar · ecclesiastical · church year · spring equinox · paschal · liturgy · observance
Paris
France's chief city
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- 1920sPost-WWI American decade
Lost Generation · Gertrude Stein · Fitzgerald · café · literary · nostalgia · reminiscence · bohemian · Left Bank · autobiography
flexible
Able to bend freely
- portableAble to be carried
- adjustableAble to be changed
- transposableAble to switch positions
relocatable · shifting · wandering · itinerant · traveling · nomadic · roaming · unfixed · floating · variable
- church feastsholy day, solemnity, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Christmas Day
- holy daysEaster Sunday, holy day, Easter Week, Christmas Eve, sabbath day
- Orthodox feastsEpiphany, Pentecost, Annunciation, Transfiguration, Palm Sunday
moveable feastChristmas
Winter nativity celebration
New Year's Day · Independence Day · All Saints' Day · Assumption · Epiphany
move, moveable, movable, moving, moved, mover, movement, movements, movers