mela

Definitions

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair.

Equivalents

Examples

“Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build⟳: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.”

“Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send⟳ three workers to set⟳ up a stall there.”

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