Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Eisteddfod
Eis·tedd′fod (ās·tĕt͟h′vōd), n. [W., session, fr. eistedd to sit.] An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, — being a patriotic revival of the old custom.