carnival
/ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/ sustantivo B2En español: carnestolendas, carnaval, antruejo, entruejo
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent. · Carnival of Brazil· Venice Carnival
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English. · We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.· When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
- A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- A gaudily chaotic situation. · a carnival of idiocy
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“We were together a good deal during the Carnival at Rome.”
But this was not so easy a matter, for the streets were thronged with people, and Rome was already a prey to that low and feverish murmur which precedes all great events; and at Rome there are four great events in every year,—the Carnival, Holy Week, Corpus Christi, and the Feast of St.
“Be easy, my dear boy; they will come in due season; it is only a question of how much shall be charged for them.” Morcerf then, with that delighted philosophy which believes that nothing is impossible to a full purse or well-lined pocketbook, supped, went to bed, slept soundly, and dreamed he was racing all over Rome at Carnival time in a coach with six horses.
Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies of this time of liberty and relaxation.
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