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Fat Tuesday

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Noun1.Fat TuesdayFat Tuesday - a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans
Mardi Gras
carnival - a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
New Orleans - a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year


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Tomorrow will come, as it always does in New Orleans -- Ash Wednesday following Fat Tuesday -- and even Reggie Bush won't be able to sprinkle gold dust and make the city's problems go away.
REBIRTH BEGINS, BUT WHERE WILL IT END? WHERE THE SAINTS COME MARCHING ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Bargain hunters and a rally in the semiconductor sector helped to correct a Fat Tuesday sell-off sparked by a cautious outlook provided from Google Inc.
Market diary by Los Angeles Business Journal
Celebrations this year in New Orleans, abbreviated but not abandoned, will culminate on Fat Tuesday, of course, and all eyes in America will focus yet again on what's left of New Orleans as the town pulls itself together for the 2006 celebrations.
It's Mardi Gras time! by Gilmour, Peter / U.S. Catholic
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