Faschingn.
/ˈfaʃɪŋ/ (See quot. 1963.) Also transferred.
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1911 R. Brooke Let. Mar. (1968) 287 München in Carnival..these smooth, baggy, tired faces in the streets with the watery obstinacy ‘It is Fasching. We are Enjoying ourselves’ in the eye.
1928 Daily Express 3 Jan. 8/5 The ‘Fasching’, or carnival season.
1963 Guardian 21 Feb. 9/5 In Munich we are in the middle of Fasching, which is the South German word for what the Rhineland calls carnival. It began on Epiphany (January 6) and lasts until Shrove Tuesday.
1965 New Statesman 19 Mar. 465/1 Cardiff, more than ever, staged a secular Fasching. International rugby matches in Wales have always been the occasion for carnival.
1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 12 Sept. 64 Fasching starts soon after New Year's Day and holds Munich in its thrall until Ash Wednesday.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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