Carnival route initially appears in complicated diagrams

• River shown in diagrams disrupted carnival

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Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by American band Creedence Clearwater Revival , released on April 11, 1972 . The group disbanded after this album was released. Unlike previous albums, Mardi Gras had Stu Cook and Doug Clifford sharing songwriting ...

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n. (alternative form of Mardi Gras English)

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Mardi gras \Mar"di` gras"\, n. [F., literally, fat Tuesday.] The last day of Carnival; the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent and fasting); Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking; in the United States ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from French, literally "fat Tuesday," from mardi "Tuesday" (12c., from Latin Martis diem "day of the planet Mars;" see Tuesday ) + gras "fat," from Latin crassus , "thick." Day of eating and merrymaking before the fasting season of Lent.