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Carnival
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Fasting Eve—Fasching—
Carnival 1. The word ‘carnival’ is derived from the Italian
carne (‘meat’) and
levale (‘removal’), recalling the practice of abstinence from meat during the penitential season of Lent. It was originally used for the name of Shrove Tuesday, the eve of the first day of Lent (Ash Wednesday). Derived from the Old English
lengten (‘springtime,’ implying the lengthening of the days), ‘lent’ is the annual forty-weekday Christian season of fasting, abstinence from meat, and sobriety of manner, in the spirit of a memorial of the sufferi…
Source:
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
