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Carnival

noun

A festival marked by merrymaking and processions.

A frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment. Synonym: circus. "The whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"

A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.. Synonyms: fair, funfair.

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"Carnival" Quotes from Famous Books

... done in tracing the history and progress of this earth of ours, as written upon the rocks, among which geology has been so long delving? 'What are the peepers?' asked the naturalist. 'They are newts, little lizards,' answers a learned pandit. 'They are spirits of the bog, myths, that hold their carnival in the early grass of the marshy pools,' says the theorist and poet, who believes in the idealities of a poetic fancy. 'They are frogs,' says a third, who is ready to chop any amount of logic in ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... drowsy summer in the flowering limes Had laid her down at ease, Lulled by soft, sportive winds, whose tinkling chimes Summoned the wandering bees To feast, and dance, and hold high carnival Within that ...

— Verses • Susan Coolidge

... football-grounds would be heavily hit, too. And there was to be a monster roller-skating carnival at Olympia. ...

— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse

... the giddy rout, standing in it like a rock in a whirlpool. He did rejoice in the Carnival, but only because it ...

— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable

... unnaturally; for we can recall that often, often, when the window-panes of a life are smoky with the breath of suffering, just such criticisms as these are offered voluminously. We are hard folks. There seems a strain of cruelty in our blood which sometimes gloats over suffering as at a carnival. Were these men vultures, that wait to watch with joy a wounded soldier die? Of what is our nature builded, that we are cruel as the unreasoning beasts? These harsh friends are voices from our own pitiless hearts, and ought to ...

— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

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