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shroves

shroves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrove.

Meaning of shrove

Verb

shrove (third-person singular simple present shroves, present participle shroving, simple past and past participle shroved)

  1. (obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
  2. (broadly, obsolete) 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...

Questions about shroves

What is shroves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shroves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrove.

Words near shroves in the dictionary

  1. Shrove Tuesdays
  2. Shrove-cake
  3. Shrove-cakes
  4. Shrove-tide
  5. shroved
  6. shroves
  7. Shrovetide
  8. Shrovetide football
  9. Shrovetides
  10. shroving
  11. shrow

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