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单词 Shrovetide
释义

Shrovetide

/ˈʃrəʊvtʌɪd /
noun
Shrove Tuesday and the two days preceding it, when it was formerly customary to attend confession.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 Ashbourne, an ancient Shrovetide football game is still played along attractive Georgian streets, and local villages, notably Tissington, dress their wells with flowers annually.
  • 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.’

Origin

Late Middle English: of obscure origin; the first element related to shrive.

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