Definition of Shroving

1. n. The festivity of Shrovetide.

Definition of Shroving

1. Noun. (obsolete) The festivity of Shrovetide. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shroving

1. shrove [v] - See also: shrove

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shroving

shroud-laid
shroud knot
shroud knots
shrouded
shrouded gear
shrouded gears
shroudier
shrouding
shroudless
shroudlike
shrouds
shroudy
shrove
shroved
shroves
shroving (current term)
shrow
shrowd
shrowded
shrowding
shrowds
shrowed
shrowing
shrows
shrthnd
shrub
shrub celery
shrub vegetation
shrubbed
shrubberies

Literary usage of Shroving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt, John Brand (1905)
"Or, " Pit a pat, the pan is hot, We are come a shroving ; A little bit of bread and cheese Is better than nothing. The pan is hot, the pan is cold ; Is the ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"Boys and girls "go shroving" on Ash- Wednesday ( ? Shrove Tuesday) ; that is, begging for meat and drink at the farmhouse, singing this rude snatch :— " I ..."

3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"If the singers do not get any money given them, they go on as follows : Pit-a-pat, the pan's hot, I be come a shroving, A bit of bread and a bit of cheese, ..."

4. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"I am come to shroving. White bread and apple pie, My mouth U very dry ; I wish I were well a-wet, As I could sing for a out. ..."

5. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Boys and girls " go shroving " on Ash- Wednesday ( ? Shrove Tuesday); that is, begging for meat and drink at the farmhouse, singing this rude snatch:— " I ..."

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