Mardi Gras

🎭 Performing Arts, ⚜️ Fleur-de-lis, 🎉 Party Popper, and other relevant emojis for Mardi Gras, the annual festival held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter. 

Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating rich, fatty foods before the ritual Lenten sacrifices and fasting of the Lenten season.