Moveable feast

:For the novel by Ernest Hemingway, see A Moveable Feast.

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Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast

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In Christianity, a moveable feast or movable feast is a holy day -- a feast or a fast -- whose date is not fixed to a particular day of the calendar year but moves in response to the date of Easter, which date varies according to a complex formula.

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Christianity - Easter - Complex formula

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By extension, other religions' feasts are occasionally described by the same term. In addition many countries have secular holidays that are moveable, for instance to make holidays more consecutive; the term "moveable feast" is not used in this case however.

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Further, by metaphoric extension but with the meaning of a party that was on the move, Ernest Hemingway used the term as the title for his memoirs, A Moveable Feast, of life in Paris in the 1920s. This usage has become a popular phrase in food contexts, with several catering companies adopting it as their name.

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Metaphor - Party - Ernest Hemingway - Memoir - Paris - 1920s - Food

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