Shrove Monday

American  

noun

1. the Monday before Ash Wednesday.

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Usage

What is Shrove Monday? Shrove Monday is the Monday before Ash Wednesday and the second of the three days of Shrovetide. Shrovetide is the three-day period before the beginning of Lent, which is the season of fasting and penitence that precedes Easter. Shrovetide starts on Shrove Sunday and ends on Shrove Tuesday, which is the most well-known of the three days due to being the day before Ash Wednesday and because of its association with the tradition of eating pancakes on that day (it is sometimes called Pancake Day for this reason).

Etymology

Origin of Shrove Monday

First recorded in 1400–50, Shrove Monday is from the late Middle English word shrovemonday. See shrove, Monday

Example Sentences

Shrove Monday parades are a traditional high point of Carnival celebrations in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and other places in western Germany, drawing large crowds of locals and visitors.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Upon Shrove Monday the queen was persuaded to go to Mr. Comptroller's at the tilt end, and there was my lady of Leicester with a fair jewel of three hundred pounds.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

On Shrove Monday Wiltshire kids went from door to door singing for a handout: Pray, dame, something, An apple or a dumpling, Or a piece of Truckle cheese Of your own making.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

The evening of Shrove Monday, February the 5th, 1663, was calm and serene; no eye however keen, no ear however sensitive could have detected sight or sound indicative of the approaching catastrophe.

From The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation by Religious of the Ursuline Community, A