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What is a Shrovetide?

What is a Shrovetide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
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Don't matter whether 'tis his own or another's wedding, he's all the while jumping around like a Shrovetide pancake.
If your visit coincides with Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wednesday you'll be lucky enough to witness the 3 mile long Royal Shrovetide football competition.
About the same time Douglas came upon Roxburgh, when the garrison were enjoying the careless mirth of Shrovetide.
It was on the eve of Shrovetide, in the wilds about sixty versts from the railroad.
Lord Hunsdon's Men were still in favour at Shrovetide, when again they were the only company to perform for the Queen.
The granary of Plateliai Manor exhibits a display of Shrovetide masks, archaeological findings, old tools and household implements.

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