shrove

[ shrohv ]

verb

1. a simple past tense of shrive.

shrove

/ ʃrəʊv /

verb

1. See shrive
   a past tense of shrive

Word History and Origins

Origin of shrove¹

Middle English shroof, Old English scrāf

Example Sentences

There will be celebrating around the globe today to mark Shrove Tuesday in its various guises.

From The Daily Beast

Five ducats for Shrove Tuesday, and a Holophernes to be visibly beheaded—in a most illustrious convent, too.

From Project Gutenberg

It was on Shrove-Tuesday, after dark, that their attention was roused by a strange, crackling noise.

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Our custom of eating pancakes on Shrove-Tuesday, was probably borrowed from the Greek church.

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Which, accordingly providing, prepared his company for that journey, entering it upon Shrove-Tuesday (3rd February).

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Give me a little shrove-money for our tom-cat, Sir Grandee; he stole a leg of veal from the butcher yesterday.

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