Usually means: Pre-Lenten festival with pancakes, revelry.
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  1. Shrovetide, Shrovetide: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shrovetide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Shrovetide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Shrovetide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shrovetide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shrovetide: Wordnik
  7. Shrovetide: Wiktionary
  8. Shrovetide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Shrovetide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Shrovetide: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shrovetide: Dictionary.com
  12. Shrovetide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Shrovetide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. shrovetide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Shrovetide: Rhymezone
  16. Shrovetide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. shrovetide: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shrovetide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Shrovetide: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shrovetide: Encyclopedia

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  1. Shrovetide: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shrovetide)

▸ noun:  The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.

Similar:
Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, epiphany, Lent, Maslenitsa, Absolution Day, Great Lent, White Sunday, Whit Tuesday, Care Sunday, more...

Opposite:
Lent

Phrases:
Royal Shrovetide Football, more...

Adjectives:
last, next, jolly, finnish, merry, sweet

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Similar:
Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, epiphany, Lent, Maslenitsa, Absolution Day, Great Lent, White Sunday, Whit Tuesday, Care Sunday, more...

Opposite:
Lent

Phrases:
Royal Shrovetide Football, more...

Adjectives:
last, next, jolly, finnish, merry, sweet



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