Sagra

One September as I was traveling through the Cortona area, I noticed a huge sign announcing a (sagra degli gnocchi) a communal gnocchi festival. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sagra is celebrated on the first Sunday of October to give thanks for their safe return. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sagra once over, however, the campo relapsed into its habitual silence, and no one looking at the front of the palace would have thought of it as a place for distraction-seeking foreign sojourners. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

On the occasion of every _festa_, and of every _sagra_ (which is the holiday of one parish only), stalls are erected in the squares for the cooking and sale of these crullers, between which and the religious sentiment proper to the whole year there seems to be some occult relation. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Old Castile, "never transfixed Moor out yonder on the sagra." ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

When you are disposed to ride out upon the sagra, you have only to apply to my groom, who will forthwith saddle you my famed Cordovese entero; I purchased him from the stables at Aranjuez, when the royal stud was broken up. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

November 7, 2008 at sagra: My guess is that the nos. refer to the popular-vote percentages - i.e., ❋ Unknown (2008)

a native of Old Castile, “never transfixed Moor out yonder on the sagra.” ❋ Unknown (1712)