Shrove Mondayn.
? Obsolete.
The Monday before Shrove Tuesday.
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Shrove Mondayc1450
merry Monday1565
Fat Monday1585
Shrift Monday1587
Collop Monday1614
c1450 Bale's Chron. 195 in Six Town Chron. (1911) 121 The monday clept shrovemonday folewyng the xxi day of ffeverer.
1523 R. Hilles in Songs, Carols, etc. (1907) p. xiv The sh [r] off monday þat was the VIII day of februari.
1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 231 I Departed out of London..vpon Shroue munday 1583.
1671 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 22 Here is no newes but that the grand ballett is not to be danced till Shrove-Munday.
1709 Rider's British Merlin Fair on Shrovemonday at Newcastle under Line.
1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 32/1 Principal fairs held in Cornwall:—..Liskeard, Shrove Monday [etc.].
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