Feast-of-lanterns


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[bawn] /bɔn/
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an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.
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Also called Feast of Lanterns, Festival of Lanterns. an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists
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Cape Bon, a peninsula of NE Tunisia
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(Hinduism) another name for Diwali
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(Japanese Buddhism) Also called Festival of Lanterns another name for Bon1

French, literally “good” (adj.), from Latin bonus “good” (see bene-). It has crossed the Channel in phrases such as bon apétit (1860), literally “good appetite;” bon-ton (1744) “good style;” bon mot.

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