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Shrove tuesday

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

    "Observe when the Moon is new in February, the next Tuesday after is Shrove-tuesday: but if it change on Tuesday, then the next Tuesday following is Shrove-tuesday"

  2. 2
    the last day before Lent wordnet

Etymology

The second element is Tuesday; the first element may be a reflex of Old English *scrāf “confession” (related to the modern verb shrive), from the medieval practice of priests hearing confessions on this day.

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