Fat Thursday

English

Noun

Fat Thursday (plural Fat Thursdays)

1. 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