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单词 shrove tuesday
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Shrove Tuesdayn.

Forms: Also Middle English chrofte-, Middle English–1500s shrof-, 1500s shroff-, shroft-, shraf-.
Etymology: See Shrovetide n.
a. The Tuesday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday; often called pancake day.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Tuesday in
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Fastingong1389
Shroveday14..
Fastern's Een1416
Fastgong1429
Fastingong Tuesday1448
Fastingong Evec1450
Fastern's Evec1475
Shrove Tuesdaya1500
Shrift Tuesday1542
shrift's even1568
Fastens Tuesday1585
gut-tide1608
Mardi Gras1699
Pancake Day1700
Pancake Tuesday1790
sharp-Tuesday1858
a1500 Gough Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 159 On Chroftetewesday the Erle of Warwikk come from Caleis wt a faire felloshipp.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 They would..stand crosse-gag'd with kniues in their mouthes from one Shroft-tuisday to another.
1620 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) i. 115/2 By the vnmanerly maners of Shroue-Tuesday Constables are baffled, Bawds are bang'd, Punckes are pillag'd.
c1640 Capt. Underwit iv. ii, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 381 Tis Shrovetuesday and the prentices are pulling downe Covent Garden.
1764 Oxf. Sausage 22 Let glad Shrove-Tuesday bring the Pancake thin.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo i. 1 Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about, The people take their fill of recreation.
1911 J. A. MacCulloch Relig. Anc. Celts xiv A cock or hen was ceremonially killed and eaten on Shrove Tuesday.
b. allusively. A time of merriment.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > time of
Shrove Tuesday1616
Blue Monday1790
Shrovetide1840
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. i, in Wks. I. 552 Neuer a time, that the..collegiates come to the house, but you make it a shrouetuesday ! View more context for this quotation
1621 J. Taylor Praise of Beggery sig. D2 May euery day of the yeare be a Shrouetuesday.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as Shrove Tuesday night, Shrove Tuesday pancake.
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a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu3v/1 Never was Shrove-tuesday Bird So cudgel'd.
1634 T. Carew (title) Cœlum Britannicum. A masque..on Shrove-Tuesday-night.
1641 T. Herbert Newes out of Islington 1 As flat as a Shrove-tuesday pan-cake.
C2.
Shrove Tuesday cock n. Obsolete = Shrovetide cock n. at Shrovetide n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > cock
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > used in festivals
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. Pref. sig. A4v He..does..set up a Shrove-Tuesday Cock, for every one to throw at.
1848 R. Whately Let. in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 135 I should reply, I will not set up any proposal like a Shroue-Tuesday cock for you to pelt at.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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