Shrove Sunday
Americannoun
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
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Ah, well! he came here on Shrove Sunday, in the afternoon.
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
They were tall and powerfully built, and indeed, as it was Shrove Sunday, I first of all took them for men in disguise.
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
The next week, being our first week of Lent, or our cleansing week, beginning our Shrove Sunday, they make and keep a great fast.
From Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
"He must have disguised himself to take part in the Shrove Sunday carnival."
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
This has been a remarkably quiet night, for Shrove Sunday!
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
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