A festival featuring arts and events specific to a particular culture, especially one celebrating and promoting that culture in a wider public context; (also more generally) an arts festival.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Fitchburg Sentinel.
Definition of cultural festival in US English:
cultural festival
noun
A festival featuring arts and events specific to a particular culture, especially one celebrating and promoting that culture in a wider public context; (also more generally) an arts festival.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Fitchburg Sentinel.