Usually means: Pancakes eaten before Lent begins.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Shrove Tuesday:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrove tuesday: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Shrove Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday: Merriam-Webster
  3. Shrove Tuesday: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Shrove Tuesday: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Shrove Tuesday: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Shrove Tuesday: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shrove-Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday: Wordnik
  8. Shrove Tuesday, Shrove tuesday: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shrove Tuesday: Wiktionary
  10. Shrove Tuesday: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shrove tuesday: Dictionary.com
  12. Shrove Tuesday, Shrove tuesday: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Shrove tuesday: Rhymezone
  14. shrove-tuesday: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. shrove tuesday: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shrove tuesday: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Shrove Tuesday: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shrove Tuesday: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shrove Tuesday: Holidays Around the World

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shrove Tuesday)

▸ noun:  The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

Similar:
Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, Shrove Monday, Fat Thursday, Good Wednesday, Passion Sunday, Plough Sunday, Plough Monday, forefeast, Plow Monday, more...

Opposite:
Ash Wednesday, Lent

Types:
Mardi Gras, Carnival, Fat Tuesday, more...

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Similar:
Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, Shrove Monday, Fat Thursday, Good Wednesday, Passion Sunday, Plough Sunday, Plough Monday, forefeast, Plow Monday, more...

Opposite:
Ash Wednesday, Lent

Types:
Mardi Gras, Carnival, Fat Tuesday, more...



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