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Nov 30, 2009
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Mar•di Gras



Pronunciation: (mär'dē grä", grä'), [key]
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.

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