Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. cultural events
6. celebrations
7. festivals (celebrations)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events
4. events
5. cultural events
6. holidays
7. religious holidays
8. Christian holidays

Narrower term/s

• Mardi Gras

Anotations

Scope note:

The festive period of balls, masquerades, parades, and general revelry held in the pre-Lenten season, over periods of time ranging from between Christmas and Shrove Tuesday to the last few days before Lent, varying from one country or city to another. For traveling or seasonal amusement enterprises consisting of sideshows, games of chance, rides, and other similar entertainments, use "carnivals."