(Latin: carnem levare, taking away of flesh) A time of feasting and revelry preceding the Lenten fast, chiefly observed in southern Europe; also, because in many places an occasion of immorality, a time of prayer and of practises of mortification and penance in order to repair the offenses against the Divine law.
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