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† Shrove Sunday Obs. Also 5–6 shrof(f, -ffe, 6 shroft, shrofe. [See Shrove-tide.] The Sunday in Shrove-tide, Quinquagesima Sunday.
1463Maldon, Essex Crt. Rolls Bundle 38 No. 2 Dominica vocata Shrofsunday. a1500Gough Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 164 On Shrofe Sonday the kyng hadd purposed to have goone Northward. 1556Chron. Grey Friars (Camden) 96 The xxiij. of February [1555] was Shroft sonday. 1570in D. Digges Complete Ambass. (1655) 51 Mr. Norris is arrived here yesterday, being Shrove-sunday. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. xi. 207 That the Clergy should fast from Quinquagesima (that is, Shrove-sunday) to Easter. a1662Heylin Laud i. (1668) 66 Laud preaching on Shrove-Sunday, Anno 1614. 1843Keith Treat. Globes 183 Shrove Sunday or Quinquagesima Sunday is 7 weeks Before Easter. |