From shrove, past tense of shrive (“to receive a confession”), from the mediaeval practice of priests hearing confessions before Lent, and Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday (plural Shrove Tuesdays)
- The day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
- Coordinate term: Fat Thursday
1712, Erra Pater, A Prognostication for Ever, Made by Erra Pater, page 7:Observe when the Moon is new in February, the next Tuesday after is Shrove-tuesday: but if it change on Tuesday, then the next Tuesday following is Shrove-tuesday
1779, David Dalyrymple, Annals of Scotland From the Accenssion of Robert I, page 283:The day appointed for this extraordinary hunting-party was Shrove Tuesday. The Protestants of Paisley, in whose neighbourhood this story may be said to have originated, cannot discern the difference betwixt Shrove Tuesday and any other Tuesday; but if a Roman Catholic Princess, even in our free times, should be invited to a hunting-match on Shrove Tuesday, she would be shocked at the profane invitation.
day before the beginning of Lent
- Arabic: الثلاثاء البدين, ثلاثاء المرافع, يوم البان كيك هي
- Armenian: բարեկենդան (hy) (barekendan)
- Belarusian: ма́сьленіца f (másʹljenica)
- Breton: Meurlarjez (br), Mallarje, Mallarjez, Mallarde, Meurzh al Lard, an Ened
- Carpathian Rusyn: фашенґі (fašengi)
- Catalan: dimarts de carnaval m
- Danish: hvide tirsdag c
- Dutch: vastenavond m
- Estonian: vastlapäev, vastlad
- Finnish: laskiaistiistai (fi), (colloquial) laskiainen (fi)
- French: mardi gras (fr) m
- Galician: martes de entroido m
- German: Faschingsdienstag m, Fastnachtsdienstag (de) m
- Hungarian: húshagyókedd (hu)
- Indonesian: Selasa Gemuk
- Ingrian: Liukupäivä
- Irish: Máirt Inide f, Máirt na hInide f
- Italian: martedì grasso m
- Japanese: パンケーキ・デイ (pankēki-dei)
- Korean: 팬케이크 데이 (paenkeikeu dei)
- Louisiana Creole: Maddi Gra
- Manx: Jemayrt Innyd m, Oie Innyd f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fetetirsdag c, feitetirsdag c, feittirsdag c, grautatirsdag c, hvitetirsdag c
- Nynorsk: feitetysdag c, feittysdag c
- Pennsylvania German: Faschtnachtsdaag m, Faasnachtdaag m, Fassnacht f
- Persian: سهشنبه اعتراف
- Polish: tłusty czwartek (pl) m
- Portuguese: terça-feira gorda f, terça-feira de carnaval f
- Romanian: lăsatul secului de carne
- Russian: ма́сленица (ru) f (máslenica)
- Scottish Gaelic: Dimàirt Inide m, Dimàirt na h-Inide m
- Skolt Sami: maiddpââʹzzlâšttam
- Slovak: Fašiangy
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zapust m
- Spanish: martes de carnaval m
- Swedish: fettisdag (sv) c
- Turkish: Tövbe Salısı
- Ukrainian: ма́сниця f (másnycja)
- Welsh: Dydd Mawrth Ynyd m
- West Frisian: Fêsteljûn
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