This festival lasted fifty-two days and was probably one of the most elaborate and grandiose festival the Ottomans had ever held, and it was well documented.

So it seemed only natural that the biggest, most elaborate festival of all should get the most elaborate treatment.

Others still refer to their now-urbanized neighborhoods as a "pueblo," or village, and celebrate with elaborate festivals the feast day of their settlement's patron saint.

DURING the last half of the month, New Haven has been staging "Art and Ideas," an elaborate annual festival that encompasses all the arts.

And that celebration paled by comparison to the elaborate festival in Myanmar last year to celebrate the arrival here of the Chinese tooth.

The necessity for such a college arose as the increasingly elaborate festivals required experts to oversee their organization.

A series of elaborate festivals were held.

San Juan Chamula is considered to be a center of indigenous culture, especially its elaborate festivals of Carnival and Day of Saint John.

A fête or fete is an elaborate festival, party or celebration.

The elaborate costumed festivals came to an end early in the 1950s and were replaced with co-ed events.