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Fat Thursday
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English
Noun
Fat Thursday
The Thursday before the start of Lent.
en Shrove Tuesday
en Rome Celebrates Pre-Lenten Fete The New York Times 1959-02-06 https://www.nytimes.com/1959/02/06/archives/rome-celebrates-prelenten-fete-people-mark-fat-thursday-while.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20211029132938/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/02/06/archives/rome-celebrates-prelenten-fete-people-mark-fat-thursday-while.html 29 October 2021
Translations
Catalan: ca dijous gras m, ca dijous llarder m
Finnish: fi rasvatorstai
French: fr jeudi gras m
German: de Schmutziger Donnerstag m standard German, de Fettdonnerstag m Rhineland
Alemannic German: gsw Schmotziger Dunschtig m
Italian: it giovedì grasso m
Polish: pl tłusty czwartek m
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