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Shrove Tuesdays

Shrove Tuesdays is the plural of Shrove Tuesday.

Meaning of Shrove Tuesday

Noun

Shrove Tuesday (plural Shrove Tuesdays)

  1. The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
    • Observe when the Moon is new in February, the next Tuesday after is Shrove-tuesday: but if it change on Tuesday, then the next Tuesday following is Shrove-tuesday1712, Erra Pater, A Prognostication for Ever, Made by Erra Pater, page 7

Questions about Shrove Tuesdays

What is Shrove Tuesdays the plural of?
Shrove Tuesdays is the plural of Shrove Tuesday.

Words near Shrove Tuesdays in the dictionary

  1. Shrove Monday
  2. Shrove Mondays
  3. Shrove Sunday
  4. Shrove Sundays
  5. Shrove Tuesday
  6. Shrove Tuesdays
  7. Shrove-cake
  8. Shrove-cakes
  9. Shrove-tide
  10. shroved
  11. shroves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shrove Tuesdays (page history and authors); Shrove Tuesday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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