shrovetide

IPA: ʃrˈɑvʌtaɪd

Root Word: Shrovetide

The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.

Examples of "shrovetide" in Sentences

Shrovetide games survive in a number of English towns.
Many a Shrovetide here may bow To that empress I do now,
The traditional Shrovetide football match was also common place in the city.
Alternative names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football.
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.