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
[1]
,
→ISSN
:
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
French:
jeudi gras
m
German:
Schmutziger Donnerstag
m
(
standard German
)
,
Fettdonnerstag
m
(
Rhineland
)
Alemannic German:
Schmotziger Dunschtig
m
Italian:
giovedì grasso
m
Polish:
tłusty czwartek
(pl)
m
Further reading
Fat Thursday
on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia