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Spectacle > Festivals > Carnival

Preferred term

Carnival  

Definition

  • The season immediately preceding Lent, devoted in Italy and other Roman Catholic countries to revelry and riotous amusement; Shrove-tide; the festivity of this season; any season or course of feasting, riotous revelry or indulgence [OED]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Fasnacht
  • Fastnacht
  • Mardi gras, carnival
  • Shrove-tide, carnival

Notation

  • 114354

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-G0QD730H-1

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