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Shrovetide   Listen
noun
Shrovetide  n.  The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shrovetide" Quotes from Famous Books



... month of February; the almanac told him that it wanted a week to Shrove Tuesday. In four days he had written as many articles, entitled respectively Shrovetide Customs, The Pancake, Lenten Observances, and Tuesdays Known to Fame. The Pancake, giving as it did the context of every reference in literature to pancakes, was the most scholarly of the four; the ...
— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne

... Shrovetide is associated with pancakes. The pancake bell is still rung in many places, and for some occult reason it is the season for some wild football games in the streets and lanes of several towns and villages. At St. Ives on the Monday there is a grand hurling match, which resembles a Rugby football contest ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield



Words linked to "Shrovetide" :   ecclesiastical calendar, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday



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