"Carnival" meaning in English

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        "The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent."
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  "word": "Carnival"
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  "etymology_text": "See carnival.",
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      "form": "Carnivals",
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          "ref": "1873 April, R. H. Horne, The Great Fairs and Markets of Europe, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine, New Series Volume 17: January—June 1873, page 436",
          "text": "To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the Carnivals of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the Carnivals and Jahrmarkts of Germany."
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          "word": "Mardi Gras"
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  "etymology_text": "See carnival.",
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  "etymology_text": "See carnival.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the Carnivals of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the Carnivals and Jahrmarkts of Germany."
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