FERIA
Scrabble letter values: F4E1R1I1A1 = 8
Definition
- noun a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated.
- noun (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint.
Examples
- “in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday”