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  1. (French `fat Tuesday' from the custom of
  2. using up all the fat in the household before
  3. the beginning of Lent) Shrove Tuesday. A
  4. festival was traditionally held on this day
  5. in Paris, and there are carnivals in many
  6. parts of the world, including New Orleans,
  7. Louisiana; Italy; and Brazil.
  8.