† Shrove Thursdayn.
Obsolete. rare.
Apparently erroneous for Sheer Thursday n. = Maundy Thursday.
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Sheer Thursdayc1200
Maundy Thursday1440
Skire Thursday?c1450
Cene Thursday1483
Skere Thursday1498
Our Lord's Supper Daya1500
Maudlin Thursday1517
Shrove Thursday1518
begging Thursday1546
mandate Thursday1546
Holy Thursday1590
1518–19 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 301 Paid for watur on shrofthursday & on Estur Even for þe fount..jd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/2 Schrove thursday, jevuedy absolu [on pp. 266/2, 811/2 glossed correctly ‘Sherethursday’].
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