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Pancake Day

British  

noun

  1. another name for Shrove Tuesday

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A little butter or oil to cook them in and a squeeze of lemon and sugar is all they need to make Pancake Day a success.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2023

National Pancake Day, in case you missed it, was Sept. 26.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

He thinks the day is usually overshadowed in the media by Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2014

Note that Tuesday is National Pancake Day, not International Pancake Day, even though it’s the brainchild of the International House of Pancakes.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2013

The practice of eating pancakes on this day still survives in many places, and hence it is also called Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller

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