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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

... city police and fire departments their force. Men shout together on the ball field, and sing folk-songs in chorus. As an audience they listen to the play or the sermon, as a mob they rush the jail to lynch a prisoner, or as a crowd they riot in high carnival on Mardi Gras. The normal individual belongs to a family, a community, a political party, a nation; he may belong, besides, to a church, a few learned societies, a trade-union, or any number of ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... to work. I 'm tired of dis, jus' dig, dig, work in de fiel', nothin' to see but de cloud, de tree, de bayou. I don't lak' New Orleans; it too near here, dere no mo' money dere. I go up fo' Mardi Gras, an' de same people, de same ...

— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar

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