Definition of "fastnacht" []

• Doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Henry Wasserman diffidently intimated that there was a curious but satisfactory element of safety in being last -- a "fastnacht" in their language, in fact."
• "Since these regulations affected mainly the clergy, we find the name carnis privium sacerdotum and in Germany herren fastnacht."
• "Everybody else gits there first, and it's nossing for the fastnacht but weeping and wailing and gnashing of the teeth."