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Mardi Gras

noun

The last day before Lent. Synonyms: pancake day, Shrove Tuesday.

A carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans. Synonym: Fat Tuesday.

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"Mardi Gras" Quotes from Famous Books

... are strictly prohibited; and above all, early closing is insisted upon. This standardizing of pleasure has always seemed an obligation to the residents of Hull-House, but we are, I hope, saved from that priggishness which young people so heartily resent, by the Mardi Gras dance and other festivities which the residents themselves arrange and successfully ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... the day before Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the "Queen City of the South" was in her gayest attire, being thronged with visitors from the North and from almost every part ...

— Frank Merriwell Down South • Burt L. Standish

Words linked to "Mardi Gras" : pancake day, carnival, Shrovetide, New Orleans, Shrove Tuesday, Christian holy day