shroved
shroved is the simple past and past participle of shrove.
Meaning of shrove
Verb
shrove (third-person singular simple present shroves, present participle shroving, simple past and past participle shroved)
- To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
- To make merry.
- Servant, your counsel's excellent good,
And shall be follow'd, 'twill be rarely strange
To see him stated thus, as though he went
A shroving through the City1626 February 13 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...
- Servant, your counsel's excellent good,
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- Shroved is the simple past and past participle of shrove.
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