Shrove Sunday

American  

noun

1. the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.

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Usage

What is Shrove Sunday? Shrove Sunday is the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the first 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 is followed by Shrove Monday and Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday 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).Shrove Sunday is sometimes called Quinquagesima or Quinquagesima Sunday.

Etymology

Origin of Shrove Sunday

First recorded in 1425–75, Shrove Sunday is from the late Middle English word shrofsunday. See shrove, Sunday

Example Sentences

About half a century later, was married, on Shrove Sunday, 1613, Frederick, the Prince Palatine, and the Princess Elizabeth.

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But when the father saw that his son's spirit was inflexible, and that on the Saturday before Shrove Sunday, Simon again, before all the family, declared undauntedly, that he would be baptized; he determined to go to extremities.

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Then came the account of the coronation on Shrove Sunday: how that grave, blue-eyed child of nine years old, had been crowned and anointed in the venerable Abbey, by Archbishop Cranmer, in the presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal; and how he had sat in the throne at the coronation-feast in the Hall, with the crown of England on the little head, and all the nobles at separate tables below.

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These documents show that Shakespeare’s company acted at Court on November 1 and 4, December 26 and 28, 1604, and on January 7 and 8, February 2 and 3, and the evenings of the following Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, 1605.

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"Shrove Sunday has its range between the 1st of February and the 7th of March."

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