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Mardi gras

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.

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

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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