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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
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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