eisteddfod

[ ahy-steth-vod, ey-steth- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural eis·tedd·fods, eis·tedd·fod·au [ey-ste, th, -, vod, -ahy, ahy-ste, th, -].

eisteddfod

/ aɪˈstɛðvɔd; aɪˈstɛdfəd /

any of a number of annual festivals in Wales, esp the Royal National Eisteddfod, in which competitions are held in music, poetry, drama, and the fine arts

1815–25; < Welsh: literally, session, equivalent to eistedd sitting + fod, variant (by lenition) of bod being

C19: from Welsh, literally: session, from eistedd to sit (from sedd seat) + -fod, from bod to be

Finally, eight other preachers from the eisteddfod came and announced to the Elder their intention.

She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod.

The last commission was issued by Queen Elizabeth in 1568, but the eisteddfod fell into abeyance during the seventeenth century.

In modern Welsh, a bard is a poet whose vocation has been recognized at an Eisteddfod.

In Cathays Park there is also a “gorsedd” or bardic circle of huge monoliths erected in connexion with the eisteddfod of 1899.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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