Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The celebration of Shrovetide; hence, in general, any merrymaking or festivity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The festivity of Shrovetide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
festivity ofShrovetide .
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Examples
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They shew themselves to be as sober, as temperate, as Curius the Roman was, and live every day as though all their life were a shroving time.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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It's about shroving homosexualist philosophy down our throats AND SILENTING DISSENT ON HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR.
It's about dissent against the gay agenda Suzanne 2006
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