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Meanings of shrove tuesday in English

Catalan
dimarts de carnestoltes
Spanish
martes de carnaval

The last day before Lent.

dimarts de carnestoltes
Usage of shrove tuesday in English
1
The Pancake bell is still rung regularly in Peterborough on Shrove Tuesday.
Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District
2
William describes the cocking as the sport of school-boys on Shrove Tuesday.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
3
It was Shrove Tuesday, and the streets were full of revellers.
Barlasch of the Guard
4
Another form of sport was that of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday.
Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George...
5
Carnival ends at twelve o'clock on the night of Shrove Tuesday.
A Siren
6
The responses flowed in; we take Shrove Tuesday and its pancake ritual seriously here.
The Irish Times
7
His plan settled, he decided to strike the fatal blow on the Shrove Tuesday.
The Lerouge Case
8
Shrove Tuesday happened to be a few days after we had sold the cow.
Nobody's Boy / Sans Famille
9
Thirty years come last Shrove Tuesday; I dandled ye on my knee, and eh!
The Golden Scorpion
10
At Cobern in the Eifel Mountains the lads make up a straw-man on Shrove Tuesday.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
11
Moreover, this day, so close, was the last of the carnival; it was Shrove Tuesday.
The Lerouge Case
12
Over in the north-east, Shrove Tuesday has taken on an even more fiercely competitive aspect.
The Guardian
13
It takes place during the lead-up to Shrove Tuesday.
BBC
14
The Shrove Tuesday charity event pits MPs, peers and the press pack against each other.
BBC
15
It being Shrove Tuesday, had some very good fritters.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 33: January/February 1664-65
16
Masque, at the Lord Viscount Hadington's Marriage at Court, on Shrove Tuesday at night, 1608.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
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