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Shrove Monday ? Obs.
Also 6 shroff.
[See Shrove-tide.]
The Monday before Shrove Tuesday.
c1450Bale's Chron. 195 in Six Town Chron. (1911) 121 The monday clept shrovemonday folewyng the xxi day of ffeverer. 1523R. Hilles in Songs, Carols, etc. (1907) p. xiv, The sh[r]off monday þat was the VIII day of februari. 1589in Hakluyt Voy. 231, I Departed out of London..vpon Shroue munday 1583. 1671in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 22 Here is no newes but that the grand ballett is not to be danced till Shrove-Munday. 1709Rider's British Merlin, Fair on Shrovemonday at Newcastle under Line. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 32/1 Principal fairs held in Cornwall:—..Liskeard, Shrove Monday [etc.]. |