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Saturnalia
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noun (n)

  • an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn(noun.act)
    source: wordnet30
  • a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity(noun.act)
    source: wordnet30
  • The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.(noun)
    source: webster1913
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