shrovingn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
The keeping of Shrovetide; the merrymaking characteristic of this season; festive rejoicing; carnival.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > pre-Lent or Shrove-tide festivities
Fastens1515
carnival1549
shroving1570
Mardi Gras1699
Moomba1955
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36 At shroftide to shrouing, go thresh the fatte henne.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. K4 A day of shrouing which I promist long ago to the prentises of London.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 173 I have seene Curtizans..in time of shroving, apparrelled like men, in carnation or light coloured doublets and breeches.
a1656 J. Hales Serm. at Eton (1673) i. 4 What else..was the whole life of this miserable man here, but in a manner a perpetual Shroving?
1855 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. XI. 239 [In the Isle of Wight] Shroving, shroving, I am come to shroving.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as shroving day, shroving dish, shroving time, shroving ware, shroving week.
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1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. C.ii They..liue euery day, as though al their life were a shrouynge tyme.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 63 His shrouing ware, [is] but lenten stuff.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 656 I..keepe my shroving dayes vpon fish dayes; and my feasts vpon fasting-dayes.
1612 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 235 The king came to town, and tarried here all that Shroving week.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Induct. 65 in Wks. II His sweating put me in minde of a good Shrouing dish..a stew'd Poet!
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 5 Before so long a Lent of Servitude, they may permitt us a little Shroving-time first.
C2.
shroving cock n. = Shrovetide cock n. at Shrovetide n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > cock
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > used in festivals
shroving cock1629
shrove-cock1659
Shrove Tuesday cock1697
Shrovetide cock1700
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia To Rdr. sig. A3v That he might stand like a Iack-a-Lent, or a Shrouing Cocke for euery one to spend a Cudgell at.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxcviii. 372 The Cudgelling of Shroving-Cocks is a Barbarous custom.
shroving hen n. = Shrovetide hen n. at Shrovetide n. Compounds 2.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift on Shrove Tuesday
Shrovetide hen1598
shroving hen1611
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > at or of specific stage, condition, or habits
pulletc1400
brood-hen1526
smoke-hen1577
Shrovetide hen1598
shroving hen1611
poulard1733
clucker1779
1611 in C. Mackay Coll. Songs London Prentices (1841) 152 I will lay my lips to a fat shroving hen That none of these will 'er be had againe.
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