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Definition of Shrovetide in English: Shrovetidenounˈʃrəʊvtʌɪdˈʃroʊvˌtaɪd Shrove Tuesday and the two days preceding it, when it was formerly customary to attend confession. 忏悔节(忏悔星期二及其前两天) Example sentencesExamples - In Ashbourne, an ancient Shrovetide football game is still played along attractive Georgian streets, and local villages, notably Tissington, dress their wells with flowers annually.
- In the rural Ireland of my youth, the three days prior to Ash Wednesday were known as Shrovetide and it was a time of eating, drinking, music-making and card playing.
- Come on a Thursday or Saturday for the market, or at Shrovetide for the traditional ‘football match’, when hundreds engage in a mad brawl game featuring goal posts three miles apart.’
- Lord Hunsdon's Men were still in favour at Shrovetide, when again they were the only company to perform for the Queen.
- Valentine's Day was interesting in 1602, because in that year it was also Shrove Sunday, the first day of Shrovetide - the three days associated with revels, carnival, misrule, and inversion of roles ending on Shrove Tuesday.
- In terms of Christian religion, Shrovetide was the time when you were meant to visit your confessor and admit to all the naughty things you'd been up to.
OriginLate Middle English: of obscure origin; the first element related to shrive. Definition of Shrovetide in US English: ShrovetidenounˈʃroʊvˌtaɪdˈSHrōvˌtīd Shrove Tuesday and the two days preceding it, when it was formerly customary to attend confession. 忏悔节(忏悔星期二及其前两天) Example sentencesExamples - Come on a Thursday or Saturday for the market, or at Shrovetide for the traditional ‘football match’, when hundreds engage in a mad brawl game featuring goal posts three miles apart.’
- Lord Hunsdon's Men were still in favour at Shrovetide, when again they were the only company to perform for the Queen.
- In terms of Christian religion, Shrovetide was the time when you were meant to visit your confessor and admit to all the naughty things you'd been up to.
- In the rural Ireland of my youth, the three days prior to Ash Wednesday were known as Shrovetide and it was a time of eating, drinking, music-making and card playing.
- In Ashbourne, an ancient Shrovetide football game is still played along attractive Georgian streets, and local villages, notably Tissington, dress their wells with flowers annually.
- Valentine's Day was interesting in 1602, because in that year it was also Shrove Sunday, the first day of Shrovetide - the three days associated with revels, carnival, misrule, and inversion of roles ending on Shrove Tuesday.
OriginLate Middle English: of obscure origin; the first element related to shrive. |