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Mardi gras

Mardi gras Meaning & Definition
Mardi gras Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mardi gras?

[n] the pre-Lenten festival of Shrove Tuesday
[n] the last day before Lent

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mardi gras: Fat Tuesday | pancake day | Shrove Tuesday

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mardi gras: Advent | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | banquet | blowout | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Carnival | Christmas | Corpus Christi | do | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | Epiphany | fair | feast | festival | festive occasion | festivity | fete | field day | fiesta | gala | gala affair | gala day | Good Friday | great doings | Halloween | Hallowmas | high jinks | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | jamboree | kermis | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | Lent | Lententide | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | party | Passion Week | Pentecost | picnic | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | Saturnalia | Septuagesima | Shrove Tuesday | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | waygoose | wayzgoose | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek

See Also | carnival | Christian holy day | New Orleans | Shrovetide

Mardi gras In Webster's Dictionary

\Mar"di` gras"\, n. [F., literally, fat Tuesday.] The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

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