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Shrove Tuesday collapse

Ash Wednesday collapse: the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance

Good Friday collapse: Friday before Easter

Corpus Christi collapse: a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico; Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246

Carnival collapse: a festival marked by merrymaking and processions; a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

Palm Sunday collapse: Sunday before Easter

Easter collapse: a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox

Stoicism collapse: an indifference to pleasure or pain; (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno

Christmas collapse: a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland; period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6; spend Christmas; "We were christmassing in New York"

Lent collapse: a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

Pentecost collapse: seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the apostles; a quarter day in Scotland

Mardi Gras collapse: a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans; the last day before Lent

lot collapse: a parcel of land having fixed boundaries; "he bought a lot on the lake"; (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction; divide into lots, as of land, for example

chastity collapse: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)

vegetarianism collapse: a diet excluding all meat and fish

continence collapse: the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters; voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge

alter ego collapse: a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself

second collapse: a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?"; the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match; a 60th part of a minute of arc; "the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here"; following the first in an ordering or series; "he came in a close second"; 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; having the second highest gear ratio; "second gear"; coming next after first; "a second chance"; "the second vice president"; a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first; "second flute"; "the second violins"; coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude; in the second place; "second, we must consider the economy"; transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment; "The officer was seconded for duty overseas"; give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project"

end collapse: a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"; the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"; a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold; a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"; the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"; a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"; either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"; one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"; (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"; a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"; the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"; bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"; put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"; have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"; be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"

abstinence collapse: act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite; the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

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