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shrove tuesday
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 people to confess their sins to their parish
priests, after which they dined on pancakes, or
fritters, and the occasion became one of merriment. The
bell rung on this day is popularly called Pancake Bell,
and the day itself Pancake Tuesday.
--P. Cyc.
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 is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of "fat eating" or "gorging" before the fasting period of Lent.
This moveable feast is determined by Easter. The expression "Shrove Tuesday" comes from the word shrive, meaning " absolve". Shrove Tuesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, who "make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God's help in dealing with."
Being the last day of the liturgical season historically known as Shrovetide, before the penitential season of Lent, related popular practices, such as indulging in food that one sacrifices for the upcoming forty days, are associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations, before commencing the fasting and religious obligations associated with Lent. The term Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday.
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.