Usually means: Festive celebration before Lent begins.
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  1. mardi gras: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mardi Gras: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mardi Gras: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mardi Gras: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Mardi Gras: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mardi Gras: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mardi-Gras, Mardi Gras: Wordnik
  8. Mardi Gras, Mardi gras: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mardi Gras, mardi gras: Wiktionary
  10. Mardi gras: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Mardi Gras: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mardi Gras: Dictionary.com
  13. Mardi gras: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mardi Gras (album), Mardi Gras (disambiguation), Mardi Gras (music group), Mardi Gras (ship), Mardi Gras, Mardi gras: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mardi gras: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. Mardi gras: Rhymezone
  17. Mardi gras: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Mardi Gras: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. mardi gras: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mardi gras: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Mardi Gras: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Mardi Gras: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Mardi Gras: Holidays Around the World

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  1. Mardi Gras: Anthropological Terms

(Note: See mardi_grass as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Mardi gras)

noun:  The day when traditionally all fat and meat in the house were finished up, before Christians were banned from eating them during Lent, which commenced the following day on Ash Wednesday.
noun:  The last day of a carnival, traditionally the celebration immediately before the start of Lent when joy would be out of place for Christians.
noun:  A carnival.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Mardi Gras [The day when traditionally all fat and meat in the house were finished up, before Christians were banned from eating them during Lent, which commenced the following day on Ash Wednesday.]

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