movable feast

movable feast

noun
a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English
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Movable feast is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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movable feast

noun
a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years 
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