Crossword-Solution: SHROVETIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shrovetide | n. | The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday. |
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| Days before Ash Wednesday. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SHROVETIDE (5)
From what I have heard I think I am right in saying that this sudden want of work will affect your plans more than it will many of my other hands.” “I was to be married at Shrovetide,” the man answered, tracing a pattern upon the table with his horny forefinger.
The friars tell how a brother resolved, at Shrovetide, to make pancakes, and not only to make, but also to toss them.
Jacob’s Day; and how the stout young Hubert of Malsen had scattered the rascal merchants of Dort at their Shrovetide fair.
For here is a commonwealth, to which if a man should take that of the ‘prentices in their ancient administration of justice at Shrovetide, it were an aristocracy.
When the last glimmer of the blazing phantom had vanished, like a falling star, at the end of the valley, every one withdrew, crowd and maskers alike, and we quitted the ramparts with our guests." In the neighbourhood of Tübingen on Shrove Tuesday a straw-man, called the Shrovetide Bear, is made up; he is dressed in a pair of old trousers, and a fresh black-pudding or two squirts filled with blood are inserted in his neck.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1943).