Shrove Tuesday
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From shrove, past tense of shrive (“to receive a confession”), from the mediaeval practice of priests hearing confessions before Lent, and Tuesday.
Noun
[edit]Shrove Tuesday (plural Shrove Tuesdays)
- The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
- Coordinate term: Fat Thursday
- 1712, Erra Pater, A Prognostication for Ever, Made by Erra Pater, page 7:
- Observe when the Moon is new in February, the next Tuesday after is Shrove-tuesday: but if it change on Tuesday, then the next Tuesday following is Shrove-tuesday
- 1779, David Dalyrymple, Annals of Scotland From the Accenssion of Robert I, page 283:
- The day appointed for this extraordinary hunting-party was Shrove Tuesday. The Protestants of Paisley, in whose neighbourhood this story may be said to have originated, cannot discern the difference betwixt Shrove Tuesday and any other Tuesday; but if a Roman Catholic Princess, even in our free times, should be invited to a hunting-match on Shrove Tuesday, she would be shocked at the profane invitation.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]day before the beginning of Lent
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Shrove Tuesday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia