Shrove Tuesday
the last day of Shrovetide, once observed as a time of confession and absolution, later as a season of merrymaking before Lent.: See also Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras (def. 1).
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How to use Shrove Tuesday in a sentence
It was on Shrove-Tuesday, after dark, that their attention was roused by a strange, crackling noise.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksOur custom of eating pancakes on Shrove-Tuesday, was probably borrowed from the Greek church.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsWhich, accordingly providing, prepared his company for that journey, entering it upon Shrove-Tuesday (3rd February).
Sir Francis Drake Revived | Philip NicholsShrove-Tuesday, all cased in in hams, was astride of a roe whose many-branched antlers were loaded with partridges.
The Iron Pincers | Eugne SueShrove-Tuesday he fears as much as the bauds, and Lent is more damage to him than the butcher.
Microcosmography | John Earle
British Dictionary definitions for Shrove Tuesday
the last day of Shrovetide; Pancake Day
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