name-day

At Tatyana's name-day party, Onegin, bored, flirts mischievously with Olga; Lensky, enraged, challenges the friend he also loves to a duel.

A Lovestruck 'Onegin' Paul Levy 2011

August 25, the feast of St. Louis of France, was his name-day, and kept with special festivity after he became king in 1774.

Louis XVI and Tuberculosis elena maria vidal 2009

August 25, the feast of St. Louis of France, was his name-day, and kept with special festivity after he became king in 1774.

Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Skolt children received a “first tooth reindeer,” a “name-day reindeer,” and gifts on various other occasions, including wedding gifts of reindeer, so that a new household began with a small herd of the beloved animals.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

I was born on the seventh of March and my name-day is the seventeenth.

The Watch 2006

I heard it's Natalya Petrovna's name-day next week, so they will come in for that.

A Month in the Country 2006

There was an edge in both his parents 'voices that Alfredo didn't notice but remembered later, looking back to what had happened on his name-day.

Excerpt: Tears of The Salamander by Peter Dickinson 2003

After the excitements of his name-day Alfredo found it hard to sleep.

Excerpt: Tears of The Salamander by Peter Dickinson 2003

He treated the peasants for every sort of disease with soda and castor oil, and on his name-day had a thanksgiving service in the middle of the village, and then treated the peasants to a gallon of vodka — he thought that was the thing to do.

The Wife 2004

Among the glum and intensely bored teachers who came even to the name-day party as a duty we suddenly saw a new Aphrodite risen from the waves; she walked with her arms akimbo, laughed, sang, danced ....

The Wife 2004