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Like or suggestive of a traveling amusement show, having sideshows, rides, etc; Like or suggestive of any merrymaking, revelry, or festival, as a program of sports or entertainment

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  • In a number of venues now (check out Zilvinas Kempinas's "Ballroom," a disco-meets-bumper-car installation at Yvon Lambert) the carnivalesque is alive and well.
  • This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.
  • In the more carnivalesque Bozzy and Piozzi, a Town
  • The album is a carnivalesque fest and completely engaging.
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