† Shrove Sundayn.
Obsolete.
The Sunday in Shrovetide, Quinquagesima Sunday.
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1463 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 38, No. 2) Dominica vocata Shrofsunday.
a1500 Gough Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 164 On Shrofe Sonday the kyng hadd purposed to have goone Northward.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 96 The xxiij. of February [1555] was Shroft sonday.
1570 in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 51 Mr. Norris is arrived here yesterday, being Shrove-sunday.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. Illustr. 184 That the Clergie should fast from Quinquagesima (that is, Shroue-sunday) to Easter.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 66 Laud preaching on Shrove-Sunday, Anno 1614.
1843 Keith Treat. Globes 183 Shrove Sunday or Quinquagesima Sunday is 7 weeks Before Easter.
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