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Carnival vs Frevo - What's the difference?

carnival | frevo |

As nouns the difference between carnival and frevo

is that carnival is a festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment while frevo is any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.

As a proper noun Carnival

is the season just before the beginning of the Roman Catholic season of Lent, when New Orleans has its Mardi Gras carnival.

carnival

English

(wikipedia carnival)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

    • Derived terms

    * carnival glass * carny * carnivalesque * carnivalistic

    See also

    *

    frevo

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia frevo)
  • Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from (Recife), (Pernambuco), Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 24, author=Jon Pareles, title=Recalling Romance, Brazilian Rock Beats and an Age-Old Harp, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo ; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica. }}