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She starved you badly: it’s time for pancakes!
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shrove tuesday
Word definitions for shrove tuesday in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day ) is a day in February or March preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent ), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes . In others, especially those where it ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrove \Shrove\, imp. of Shrive . Shrove Sunday , Quinguagesima Sunday. Shrove Tuesday , the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday, and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday. Note: It was formerly customary in England, on this day, for the ...
Usage examples of shrove tuesday.
It's so easy to find out a wedding-party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week afterwards.
He declares that on Shrove Tuesday he will build a bonfire even bigger than the last one.
His profusion of long lank yellow hair hung heavily across his head like a Shrove Tuesday mishap.
I knew Germany well enough to know that for some Germans Shrove Tuesday was best remembered as the anniversary of that night.
It's called Shrove Tuesday by some, and many festivities are held throughout the city.
Our laws are wisely provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday.
Knapps pelt the boys as if they were cocks on Shrove Tuesday, to the great risk of their heads and limbs.
In another part of Brentford other things were stirring this Shrove Tuesday morning and what those other things were and what they would later become were matters which would in their turn weigh very heavily indeed upon certain part-time barmens shoulders.