carnival

And in the Bahamas, the King joined dancers during a Junakanoo, a traditional carnival celebrating the culture of the islands dating back to the days of slavery.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Something healed in me over my wedding weekend, watching my gringo groom sweat through his vintage Hollywood tux while learning to dance samba from a passista dressed in her carnival regalia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Musicians and acrobats joined the colorful floats, giving the downtown avenues a carnival atmosphere.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

At any rate, we’ve seen this carnival roadshow before, though it seems a bit different this time.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

They are inward toward the other, bound and joined by carnival dolls and the steamers that sailed from ports they never saw.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

By the early 1990s, some crews in the U.K. began throwing megaraves more spiritually akin to experiential carnivals than to more lowkey dance-floor-and-DJ setups.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

From there it developed into the post-Lenten carnivals of medieval Europe and the private theatricals of Renaissance courts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

She said the council had spent up to £30,000 in the parade and other St Patrick's Day events and hoped to increase the investment in carnivals and festivals in the coming years.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros