entierro de la sardina

Spanish

Noun

entierro de la sardina m (plural entierros de la sardina)

1. (idiomatic) a ceremony celebrating the end of carnival, in which a ceremonial burial (typically, of a sardine) takes place.

Further reading

• “entierro de la sardina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28