Mardi Gras
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Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to it
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Mardi Gras in Dakar, Senegal
Mardi Gras in Marseille, France
Mardi Gras in Binche, Belgium
Shrove Tuesday
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Shrove Tuesday is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries th
Mardi Gras
…Mardi Gras (UK: ; US: ), also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (detail), 1559
Russian artist Boris Kustodiev's Maslenitsa (1916)
![Shrove Tuesday, Bear guiding [pl] in Poland (1950)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Zapusty-w-Podmoklach-Wielkich_1950.jpg/500px-Zapusty-w-Podmoklach-Wielkich_1950.jpg)
Shrove Tuesday, Bear guiding [pl] in Poland (1950)
People in Alfta, Sweden, masquerading as Fettisdagsgubbar in traditional celebration of Shrove Tuesday.