Mardi gras (Festive day celebrated in France on the Shrove Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)

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• Mardi Gras — /mahr dee grah , grah / 1. the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities, as New Orleans and Paris, as a day of carnival and merrymaking; Shrove Tuesday. 2. a pre Lenten carnival period climaxing on this day. [1690 1700; < F: lit., fat Tuesday]… …   Universalium

• Carnival — For other uses, see Carnival (disambiguation). Carnival float in the Rosenmontag parade in Cologne, Germany …   Wikipedia