Glossary
The Mobile Mardi Gras season uses several terms which have specific meanings for the events:
- Carnival: the festival season, generally from January 6, Twelfth Night, to Mardi Gras, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday;
- Lundi Gras: ("Fat Monday") the Monday before Lent;
- Mardi Gras: ("Fat Tuesday") the Tuesday before Lent, also refers to the general several weeks of Carnival festival;
- King Felix III: the contemporary king of the Mobile Mardi Gras;
- mystic society: secret society formed for any annual Carnival events;
- parade krewe: a society that has annual, organized parades;
- tableau: a pageant event; and
- throw: any gift thrown from a float to the spectators.
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