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carnivals


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carnivals

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Traveling or seasonal amusement enterprises, consisting of sideshows, games of chance, rides, and other similar entertainments. For the festive period of balls, masquerades, parades, and general revelry held in the pre-Lenten season, use "Carnival (pre-Lenten festival)."

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