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SHROVETIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Shrovetide mean?
• SHROVETIDE (noun)
The noun SHROVETIDE has 1 sense:
1. immediately preceding Lent
Familiarity information: SHROVETIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immediately preceding Lent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Shrovetide" is a kind of...):
season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)
Meronyms (parts of "Shrovetide"):
Fat Tuesday; Mardi Gras; pancake day; Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent)
Holonyms ("Shrovetide" is a part of...):
church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)
Context examples
And, what is more, said Hordle John, suddenly appearing out of the buttery with the huge board upon which the pastry was rolled, if either raise sword I shall flatten him like a Shrovetide pancake.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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