Saturnalia

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·pl Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.

II. Saturnalia ·noun ·pl 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.

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