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Definition of Pancake day
1. Noun. The last day before Lent.
Generic synonyms: Christian Holy Day
Group relationships: Shrovetide
Definition of Pancake day
1. Proper noun. (chiefly British and Irish) Shrove Tuesday. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancake Day
Literary usage of Pancake day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Common. lu Warw., school-children, demanding a holiday, say: * Pancake-day,
Pancake-day, If you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run away. ..."
2. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Common. la Warw.. school-children, demanding a holiday, say: ' Pancake-day,
Pancake-day, If you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run away. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the edited by Cora Linn Morrison Daniels, Charles McClellan Stevens (1903)
"It is also called "Pancake-Day" from the custom of baking pancakes on that day.
(ST.) SIMON'S and St. Jude's Day (October 8th). ..."
4. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings by Georgina Frederica Jackson, Charlotte Sophia Burne (1883)
"pancake day is a very happy day ! If you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run
away !' was the saying of the national school-children at Edgmond, ..."
5. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"In Warwickshire the school children, demanding a half-holiday, cry— " Pancake
day, pancake day, If you don't give us a holiday we'll all run away. ..."
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