mardi gras
狂欢节,烈士陵园,烈日炎炎,马尔迪节
Definitions
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- : the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities, as New Orleans and Paris, as a day of carnival and merrymaking; Shrove Tuesday.
- : a pre-Lenten carnival period climaxing on this day.
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Whenever I shifted in my chair, the ropes of Mardi Gras beads would shimmy.
Mardi Gras, held on February 25 of last year, was one of New Orleans’ last normal moments before the pandemic.
A lot of people getting together for Mardi Gras balls, getting together in close spaces, eating and drinking and chatting.
Those fact that those samples were so closely related, the researchers found, “strongly suggests” that a single person, most likely from Texas, set off a cascade of transmissions that ended up driving the outbreak during and after Mardi Gras.
People began to wonder if the flu-like symptoms they’d experienced in the days after Mardi Gras were more than just an annual bug.
That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment.
When the host is in a festive mood, entering customers are given strings of Mardi Gras beads.
Larry Bannock was the chief of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans.
When he died, all the black Mardi Gras Indians came out and kissed the ground in front of his house.
He started a group called the Hawkettes, which in 1954 recorded "Mardi Gras Mambo," a song still popular around New Orleans.
Our subject being Mistral and not Félix Gras, a passing mention must suffice.
Afraid he got poisoned with some foie gras he ate—jolly good tack I call it—I'll have some more, please.
Bone two dozen larks, season, and put into each a piece of pt de foie gras (truffled).
Take a dozen larks, bone and stuff them with pt de foie gras, and make them as nearly as possible of the same size and shape.
Take out the trail, and add to it either three fowl livers or their equivalent in pt de foie gras.