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What is a saturnalia?

What is a saturnalia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
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Here was the site of London's notorious May Fair, a drunken saturnalia from which the surrounding district now takes its name.
But it never has the visceral thrill of those individual flashbacks, and the life there is never obviously building to final climactic saturnalia of violence.
This was their day, their feast of fools, their saturnalia, the annual orgy of the corporation of Law clerks and of the school.
Your analysis of the legality of this legislation under WTO rules and its relation to existing law in the United States amounts to nothing more than a saturnalia of thought.
This, then, is the trapper's holiday, when he is all for fun and frolic, and ready for a saturnalia among the mountains.
The birth of Black, he proposes, is a generic saturnalia, and the point about a saturnalia is that we know order will be restored, that Banville will publish as Banville again.

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