Fat Thursday

English

Noun

Fat Thursday (plural Fat Thursdays)

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 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.

Translations

Translations

Catalan: dijous gras (ca) m, dijous llarder (ca) m
German: Schmutziger Donnerstag m (standard German), Schmotziger Donnerstag m (dialectal)
Italian: giovedì grasso m
Polish: tłusty czwartek (pl) m

Further reading

Fat Thursday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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