Mardi Gras throws
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mardi-gras-throws-203-14385866
title:
Mardi Gras throws
text:
Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, doubloons, cups, or other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats for Mardi Gras celebrations, particularly in New Orleans, the Mobile, Alabama, and parades throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States, to spectators lining the streets. The "gaudy plastic jewelry, toys, and other mementos [are] tossed to the crowds from parading floats". The 'throws', consist of necklaces of plastic beads, coins called doubloons, which are stamped with krewes' logo
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encyclopedia
description:
Trinkets thrown at Mardi Gras parade spectators
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_throws
date created:
2007-10-26T08:10:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:05:50Z
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