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ˈshroving, vbl. n. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. shrove- in Shrove-tide; cf. Shrove n. and v.]
The keeping of Shrove-tide; the merrymaking characteristic of this season; festive rejoicing; carnival.
1580Tusser Husb. (1878) 180 At Shroftide to shrouing, go thresh the fat hen. 1599Dekker Shoomakers Hol. v. v. (1610) K 4 A day of shrouing which I promist to al the mery prentises of London. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 173, I have seene Curtizans..in time of shroving, apparrelled like men, in carnation or light coloured doublets and breeches. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. iii. (1673) 4 What else..was the whole life of this miserable man here, but in a manner a perpetual Shroving? 1855N. & Q. Ser. i. XI. 239 [In the Isle of Wight] Shroving, shroving, I am come to shroving.
b. attrib. and Comb., as shroving day, shroving dish, shroving time, shroving ware, shroving week; shroving cock, hen = Shrovetide cock, hen.
1537tr. Latimer's Serm. bef. Convoc. Clergy Cij, They..liue euery day as though al their life were a shrouynge tyme. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 115 His shrouing ware [is] but lenten stuff. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 656, I..keepe my shroving dayes vpon fish dayes; and my feasts vpon fasting-dayes. 1611in Songs Lond. Prentices (Percy Soc.) 152, I will lay my lips to a fat shroving hen That none of these will 'er be had againe. 1612in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 235 The king came to town, and tarried here all that Shroving week. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. Introd., That he may stand like a Jack a Lent, or a Shroving Cock, for Everyone to spend a Cudgel at. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. Induct., His sweating put me in mind of a good Shrouing dish..a stew'd Poet! 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 421 Before so long a Lent of Servitude, they may permit us a little Shroving-time first. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables cccxcviii. 372 The Cudgelling of Shroving-Cocks is a Barbarous custom. |