Fat Thursday

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Fat Thursday (plural Fat Thursdays)

  1. The Thursday before the start of Lent.
    Coordinate term: Shrove Tuesday
    • 1959 February 6, “Rome Celebrates Pre-Lenten Fete”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Rome celebrated its Giovedi Grasso, the Fat Thursday before Lent, with public mummery and carousing and did not listen to the prophets of political gloom.

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