1) Big Easy festival 2) Bourbon Street celebration 3) Cruise ship 4) Fast prelude 5) Festive February celebration 6) French word used in English 7) It precedes Ash Wednesday 8) Literally fat Tuesday 9) March observance 10) New Orleans blowout 11) New Orleans celebration 12) New orleans festival 13) New orleans spectacle
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Mardi Gras ɑː, also Fat Tuesday in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany or King`s Day and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for `Fat Tuesday`, reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten sea......
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[music group] Mardi Gras was an American, New York based, rock and roll group. They released several singles which were hits throughout Europe from 1970 to 1972, followed by an eponymous album in 1972, on Peter Anders and Vini Poncia`s Map City Records label. The core of the group was three friends, Lou Burgio, Bob Azzara, and Flip Cesario,...
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• (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
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festive day celebrated in France on Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday), which marks the close of the pre-Lenten season. In the United ... [4 related articles]
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From the custom of using up all the fat in the household before the beginning of
Lent) on Shrove Tuesday. A festival was traditionally held on this day in Paris, and there are carnivals in many...
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Mar'di` gras' noun [ French, literally, fat Tuesday.] The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
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[
n] - the last day before Lent 2. [n] - the pre-Lenten festival of Shrove Tuesday
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Fat Tuesday noun a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans
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