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vastlapäev

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 27.03.2026

Meanings

lihavõtte-eelse paastuaja eelpäev (katoliku kiriku usupüha), mida laiemalt tuntakse kui liulaskmisega ja vastlakuklite söömisega seotud tähtpäeva
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Vastlapäev on liikuv püha ning alati noore kuu ajal (ajavahemikus 8. veebruar – 7. märts). Rahvakalendris seostub vastlapäev eeskätt linakasvuga.
Usage examples
  • Vastlapäevale kohaselt olid kõik kelgunõlvad pika liu laskjatest ummistumas.
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lumerohke vastlapäev
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lumerohke vastlapäev

Terminological databases

EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 708606 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain folkloresocial entertainment
  • carnival - the season immediately preceding Lent, devoted in Italy and other Roman Catholic countries to revelry and riotous amusement, Shrove-tide; the festivity of this season. High Carnival: the revelry of the Carnival at its height. Originally (according to Tommaseo and Bellini) ‘the day preceding the first of Lent’; commonly extended to the last three days or the whole week before Lent; in France it comprises Jeudi gras, Dimanche gras, Lundi gras and Mardi gras, i.e. Thursday before Quinquagesima, Quinquagesima Sunday, Monday, and Shrove Tuesday; in a still wider sense it includes ‘the time of entertainments intervening between ‘Twelfth-day’ (or Boxing Day) and Ash Wednesday’ (Littré).
Carnival Tuesday
Usage examples
  • List of public holidays (as referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 12) The following public holidays will be observed by the ECB: New Year's Day - 1 January Carnival Tuesday (half day) - date varies ...

Word forms

Inflection Type 22i

vastlapäev vastlapäevad
vastlapäeva vastlapäevade
vastlapäeva vastlapäevi ~ vastlapäevasid

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