It's feast day in Trinidad. Dimanche Gras takes place on the Sunday night before Ash Wednesday. Here the Calypso Monarch is chosen (after competition).
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in 1945
Sparrow and Chalkdust has the most Dimanche Gras titles.
Dimanche gras.
"Fat Sunday" is an English equivalent of the French phrase dimanche gras. The masculine singular phrase most famously references the Sunday of the week in which Lent begins in the Christian calendar and the tradition of exotic parades in Caribbean celebrations of Carnival. The pronunciation will be "dee-mawnsh gra" in French.
Dimanche is a the French word for "Sunday."
Gras in french means fat
'gras' means 'fat' in French.
Sunday
Dimanche Gras ( Big Sunday) is a huge competition that takes you into J'ouvert which is the start of the two day Carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago. The Kings and Queens of the Carnival Bands are paraded before judges, one of which will win King and Queen of Carnival, as well as the Calypsonians competing against each other with their various compositions in song, all hoping to come away with the coveted title of Calypso Monarch.
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fat