- Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent: it is a day of merrymaking and carnival, as in New Orleans, often marking the climax of a carnival period
- carnival (sense )
Origin of Mardi Gras
Fr, literally , fat TuesdayMardi Gras
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Mardi Gras
noun
- a. Shrove Tuesday, celebrated as a holiday in many places with carnivals, masquerade balls, and parades of costumed merrymakers.b. A carnival period coming to a climax on this day.
- An occasion of great festivity and merrymaking.
Origin of Mardi Gras
French mardi Tuesday gras fat (from the feasting on Mardi Gras before Lenten fasting)THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- Alternative form of Mardi Gras.
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