Crossword-Solution: KREWE 5 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Proteus, Momus, the Mistick Krewe of Comus, and the other lesser societies celebrated their distinctive nights with torch and float and tableau; the city was transformed by day with bunting and flags, by night it was garlanded with fire; merrymakers thronged the streets, their carnival spirit entered into every breast.

Twenty years later the "Mystic Krewe," now known as "Comus," appeared from nowhere and disappeared again.

Already immense "proclamations," printed in every color of the rainbow, were thrown about the city like handbills, running somewhat in this style: "We command that Tuesday, Mardi-Gras, March 5, be set apart as a day of Fun, Folly and Frolic, when the innocent license of the mask shall have no let, when the places of festivity shall offer a night of pleasure to all our people, and when the pageant of the Mystick Krewe of Comus shall dazzle the eye and captivate the reason by the wonders of art and beauty.

Now, the Krewe of Proteus was composed entirely of men, and it was their policy to have nobody but men in their parade.

What shall we do?" "Go to the place where the Krewe of Proteus holds its ball." "Lade on." As both were strangers in New Orleans, they did not know how to make the shortest cut to the ballroom, and Frank found it impossible to obtain a carriage.