fiesta nounEtymology: Spanish, from Latin festa — more at feastDate: 1844
festival; specifically a saint's day celebrated in Spain and
Latin America with processions and dances
Fiesta \Fies"ta\, n. [Sp. See Feast, n.]
Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or
holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.
Even . . . a bullfight is a fiesta. --Am. Dialect
Notes.
Some fiesta, when all the surrounding population were
expected to turn out in holiday dress for merriment.
--The Century.
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