festal

adj

Etymology: From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).

1. festive, relating to a festival or feast

   “His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery.”

   “They were, at any rate in their inception, genuinely religious or genuinely social and festal; and from either point of view they were far better than the secrecy of private indulgence which characterizes our modern world in these matters.”