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Feast of Lanterns

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Bon

  [bawn]
–noun
an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.
Also called Feast of Lanterns.

Origin:
< Japn, orig. Urabon < Chin version of Skt ullambana lit., hanging upside down (a metaphor for the suffering brought on by physical desires)
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Word Origin & History

bon 
from Fr., lit. "good" (adj.), from L. bonus "good." In phrases such as bon apétit (1860), lit. "good appetite;" bonjour (1577) "good day;" bon-ton (1744) "good style;" bon mot (1735), see mot; and bon voyage (1680) "pleasant journey."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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