English
Mardi Grass
Blend of Mardi Gras + grass.
A blend of Mardi Gras + grass
French mardi gras ‘Mardi Gras: the last day of a carnival’
English Mardi Gras
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-West Germanic *gras
Old English græs
Middle English gras ‘a grass’
English grass
Today it means
name The artificial turf used as a playing surface at the New Orleans Superdome until 2003.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mardi Grass