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The name for the carnival comes from the German dialect word Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning "frolic" and Script error: No such module "Lang". meaning Monday.[1]
Overview
The Template:Ill begins at 11 minutes past the eleventh hour on 11 November and the "street carnival" starts on the Thursday before Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is known as Script error: No such module "Lang". ("women's carnival", Fat Thursday). Script error: No such module "Lang". is prevalent in Roman Catholic areas and is a continuation of the old Roman traditions of slaves and servants being master for a day. Script error: No such module "Lang". derives from the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang". ("taking leave of meat") marking the beginning of Lent.[6]
Carnival is not a national holiday in Germany, but schools are closed on Script error: No such module "Lang". and the following Tuesday in the strongholds and many other areas. Many schools as well as companies tend to give teachers, pupils and employees the Thursday before Script error: No such module "Lang". off as well and have celebrations in school or in the working place on Script error: No such module "Lang"., although every now and then there are efforts to cut these free holidays in some companies.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Celebrations usually include dressing up in fancy costumes, dancing, parades, heavy drinking and general public displays with floats. Every town in the Script error: No such module "Lang". areas boasts at least one parade with floats making fun of the themes of the day.[7] Usually sweets (Script error: No such module "Lang".) are thrown into the crowds lining the streets among cries of Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang"., whereby the cry Script error: No such module "Lang". is only applied in the Cologne Carnival and Oche Alaaf is only applied in Aachen Carnival– Script error: No such module "Lang". stems from or Script error: No such module "Lang"., Ripuarian for "all [others] away". Sweets and tulips are thrown into the crowd.
The celebrations become quieter the next day, known as Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Violet Tuesday", Shrove Tuesday), and end with Ash Wednesday.
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