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the day before Lent decided to party like repentance starts tomorrow.
means Mardi Gras is the carnival celebration of feasting, parades, and revelry held on the day before the fasting season of Lent begins.
from Straight from the French: mardi gras literally means 'Fat Tuesday' — mardi being 'Tuesday' (from Latin Martis dies, 'day of Mars') and gras being 'fat' (from Latin crassus, 'thick, greasy'). The name marks the last gorging on rich, fatty foods before Lent's lean weeks of fasting, a way to empty the larder of butter, eggs, and meat before they were forbidden. It crossed the Atlantic with French colonists, where New Orleans turned a single greasy Tuesday into a whole carnival season.
- name means
- French for Fat Tuesday, the last feast
- throw colors
- purple justice, green faith, gold power
- banned alcohol
- happens entirely before Catholic Lenten fasting begins
- oldest us
- Mobile, Alabama, beat New Orleans to it
- king cake
- hidden plastic baby crowns next year's host
new orleans mardi gras — annual carnival celebration in louisiana since 1703, draws over 1 million visitors yearly
mobile mardi gras — second-largest mardi gras in us, alabama's celebration since 1703 with mystic societies like stripers club
galveston mardi gras — texas coastal celebration attracting 60,000+ visitors, known for oleander and krewe parades