The last day before Lent.
1The Pancake bell is still rung regularly in Peterborough on Shrove Tuesday.
2William describes the cocking as the sport of school-boys on Shrove Tuesday.
3It was Shrove Tuesday, and the streets were full of revellers.
4Another form of sport was that of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday.
5Carnival ends at twelve o'clock on the night of Shrove Tuesday.
6The responses flowed in; we take Shrove Tuesday and its pancake ritual seriously here.
7His plan settled, he decided to strike the fatal blow on the Shrove Tuesday.
8Shrove Tuesday happened to be a few days after we had sold the cow.
9Thirty years come last Shrove Tuesday; I dandled ye on my knee, and eh!
10At Cobern in the Eifel Mountains the lads make up a straw-man on Shrove Tuesday.
11Moreover, this day, so close, was the last of the carnival; it was Shrove Tuesday.
12Over in the north-east, Shrove Tuesday has taken on an even more fiercely competitive aspect.
13It takes place during the lead-up to Shrove Tuesday.
14The Shrove Tuesday charity event pits MPs, peers and the press pack against each other.
15It being Shrove Tuesday, had some very good fritters.
16Masque, at the Lord Viscount Hadington's Marriage at Court, on Shrove Tuesday at night, 1608.
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