eisteddfod

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing)

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh eisteddfod (“session”), from eistedd (“to sit”) + bod (“to be”), literally “being sitting”.

She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod. — The Amazing Marriage — Complete, George Meredith
Our Eisteddfod, encouraged by the landed proprietors of Wales, forms a useful bond between landlord and tenant, employer and employed. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

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