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Two samba dancers in elaborate blue and green feathered costumes with crowns perform joyfully in front of a crowd at Sesimbra Carnival in Portugal.
Blue textured background with white text reading Carnaval.
All About Carnaval: The Festive Season Before Lent
Colorful Weiberfastnacht Mardi Gras
The Extravaganza of Venice Carnaval
Shrove Tuesday Carnival in Binche, Belgium A member of the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school in an elaborate green, white, and silver costume plays a drum and dances during the Rio de Janeiro Carnival parade at night. Carnival parade
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How to Pronounce Carnaval
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All About Carnaval: The Festive Season Before Lent
The name Carnaval might come from a Latin phrase meaning “to take away meat.”
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The Extravaganza of Venice Carnaval
Learn about the Carnaval of Venice.
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Samba dancers
Samba dancers performing in the Sesimbra Carnaval, Portugal.
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Colorful Weiberfastnacht
Costumed women celebrating Weiberfastnacht (Women's Carnaval) in Duesseldorf,...
© Federico Gambarini—picture alliance/Getty Images
Mardi Gras
An elaborate float making its way as part of a Mardi Gras parade, in New Orleans,...
Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm-11690)
Shrove Tuesday Carnival in Binche, Belgium
Townsmen costumed as Gilles (versions of a clownlike stock character named Gille)...
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Carnaval in Rio
A member of the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school performing during a Carnaval...
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Carnival parade
Women dancing in a Carnival parade, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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