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The occasional poem (French pièce d'occasion, German Gelegenheitsgedichte) is also important in Persian, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese literature, and its ubiquity among virtually all world literatures suggests the centrality of occasional poetry in the origin and development of poetry as an art form.
pseudoword: a nonsense word that still follows the phonotactics of a particular language and is therefore pronounceable, feeling to native speakers like a possible word (for example, in English, blurk is a pseudoword, but bldzkg is a nonword); thus, pseudowords follow a language's phonetic rules but have no meaning [10]
Hexennacht: 30 April – A TST Satanic occasion solemnly honoring those who fell victim to superstition and pseudoscience, whether by witch hunt, Satanic panic, or other injustices. May [ edit ]
In the Italian Renaissance, the per nozze (meaning 'for a wedding'; sometimes simply nozze; also nuptialia) emerged as a form of epithalamium, taking the form of a pamphlet, privately printed in small numbers on the occasion of a wedding. [3] The tradition had declined by the 20th century.
Entrez, messieurs, mesdames, pièce d'occasion by Offenbach (1855) Les dragées du baptême , pièce d'occasion by Offenbach (1856) La statue retrouvée (1923), an entertainment for a private costume ball in Paris with music by Erik Satie , scenario by Jean Cocteau , designs by Pablo Picasso and choreography by Leonide Massine .
It marks the end of Ramadan, the fasting month. Part of honoring this occasion is "zakaat ul-fitr" (giving alms to the needy on the day of Eid al-Fitr)) Chaand Raat (Eve of Eid al-Fitr) Holy Month of Ramadan (First day of Ramadan; A 30-day period of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran)
A ceremony (UK: / ˈ s ɛ r ə m ə n i /, US: / ˈ s ɛ r ə ˌ m oʊ n i /) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia. [1]
This is a list of occasions, such as holidays and events, named after or commonly referred to by the calendar day on which they fall. Holidays. Date Name