It, too, was in holiday attire, for one of those days which are the only true holidays, the holy days of religion, because they are not appointed by any capricious accident, as secular holidays are appointed, upon days which are not specially ordained for such observances, which have nothing about them that is essentially festal-but it was attired even more richly than the rest, for the flowers which clung to its branches, one above another, so thickly as to leave no part of the tree undecorated, like the tassels wreathed about the crook of a rococo shepherdess, were every one of them 'in colour,' and consequently of a superior quality, by the aesthetic standards of Combray, to the 'plain,' if one was to judge by the scale of prices at the 'stores' in the Square, or at Camus's, where the most expensive biscuits were those whose sugar was pink.
Festaburuko apaindura zuen hark ere-festa erlijiosoak bakarrik dira benetan festaburu, ez baitaude apeta gorabeheratsu batez edozein eguni lotuak, festa mundutarrak ez bezala, hauek ez baitute egun jakin aldez aurretik izendaturik-, festaburuko apaindura, diot, baina are aberatsagoa, zeren adarrari atxikitako loreak, batzuk besteen gainean, apaindu gabeko hutsarterik utzi gabe, artzain-makila rococo bat girlandaz edertzen duten borlen gisa, "kolorezkoak" baitziren, hots, Combrayko estetikaren arabera, kalitate goragokoak, Plazako "saltokian" indarrean zegoèn prezioen eskalaren arabera epaituz gero bederen, edo Camusenean, honen dendan ere garestiagoak baitziren bixkotx arrosak besteak baino.