How to Use "saturnalia" with Example Sentences

1. No , because we don 't celebrate the ancient pagan festival of saturnalia .

2. Saturnalia the ancient roman seven-day festival of saturn , which began on december 17 .

3. The romans called this celebration saturnalia , in honor of their god saturn .

4. Festivals like saturnalia appeared to undermine the social order , but paradoxically helped to reaffirm it , by allowing people to act out their frustrations in a harmless way .

5. During saturnalia , a roman winter celebration , participants would dance , drink and play jokes on each other ; slaves pretended to rule their masters , and a mock king , the lord of misrule , reigned for a day .