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Shrove Tuesday (also
known as
Pancake Tuesday or
Pancake Day) is the
final day of Shrovetide,
which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins...
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Mardi Gras (UK: /ˌmɑːrdi ˈɡrɑː/, US: /ˈmɑːrdi ɡrɑː/; also
known as
Shrove Tuesday) is the
final day of
Carnival (also
known as
Shrovetide or Fastelavn);...
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repentance before the
Lenten fast. It
includes Shrove Sa****ay,
Shrove Sunday,
Shrove Monday and
Shrove Tuesday.
During Shrovetide,
Christians traditionally...
- Norway, and Latvia, ****ociated with Lent and
especially Shrove Tuesday in most countries,
Shrove Monday in Denmark,
parts of
southern Sweden,
Iceland and...
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Christian pre-Lenten period,
consisting of
Quinquagesima or
Shrove Sunday,
Shrove Monday, and
Shrove Tuesday or
Mardi Gras.
Carnival typically involves public...
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before Lent,
following Quinquagesima or
Shrove Sunday and
preceding Shrove Tuesday or
Mardi Gras. The word
shrove is the past
tense of the
English verb...
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bequest in 1925. The
shroving chant which was
repeated at each door in the
expectation of a gift of confectionary: "We be come a
shroving For a
piece of truckle-cheese...
- peninsula,
which encloses Kraken Bay
between the
peninsula and
Lucifer Hill.
Shrove Point is the
southeastern end of
Candlemas Island,
while Boot Rock juts...
- out the dogs
eares of all thy
fellowes bookes. — William Hawkins,
Apollo Shroving, 1627, p. 93. (Quoted
after the
Oxford English Dictionary.)
Although there...
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Shrove (/ˈʃruːv/;
pronounced as 'Shroove' to
rhyme with 'prove'; Irish: An tSrúibh or, originally, Srúibh Bhrain) is a
coastal hamlet and
townland in Inishowen...
