Carnival
A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.
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Carnival Quotations
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet
The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
Arianna Huffington
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
Aisha Tyler
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
Edward Blake
Carnival Translations
carnival in Dutch is carnaval
carnival in French is carnaval
carnival in German is Karneval, Karneval, Fasching
carnival in Italian is carnevale, carnevale
carnival in Spanish is carnaval
carnival in Swedish is karneval
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