Meaning of MARDI GRAS
| Pronunciation: | | `mârdi'grâr
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- [n] the pre-Lenten festival of Shrove Tuesday
- [n] the last day before Lent
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| | Synonyms: | | Fat Tuesday, pancake day, Shrove Tuesday |
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| | See Also: | | carnival, Christian holy day, New Orleans, Shrovetide | |
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| | Definition: | | Mardi Gras
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Dreaming of Mardi Gras indicates your need to release your inhibitions and let yourself go. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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