shrovetide
IPA: ʃrˈɑvʌtaɪd
Root Word: Shrovetide
noun
- The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
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Examples of "shrovetide" in Sentences
- In this name shrovetide the religious idea is uppermost, and the same is true of the German
- Tomorrow for shrovetide celebration the rest of the costume will be a simple improvisation.
- The English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) is sufficiently explained by a sentence in the
- Christians, are derived the profane riots of new year's day, twelfthtide, and shrovetide, by which many pervert these times into days of sin and intemperance.
- Folk football - also called mob football or shrovetide football - dates back to medieval times and is played with hundreds of players using the village as the pitch.
- There are the courses that are consumed of the precisely specified the holidays as Petrovden, Dimitrovden, Zaduchnitsa, Sirni-Zagovezdni shrovetide and common хранар everyday apart.
- "that Her Majesty's players may be suffered to play ... within the city and liberties _between this and shrovetide next_" [93] -- in other words, during the winter season when access to the Theatre was difficult.
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