shrove

• enPR: shrōv, IPA^(key): /ʃɹəʊv/

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• Rhymes: -əʊv

shrove

1. simple past of shrive

shrove (third-person singular simple present shroves, present participle shroving, simple past and past participle shroved)

1. (obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
2. (obsolete, by extension) To make merry.
   • 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Servant, your counsel's excellent good,
     And shall be follow'd, 'twill be rarely strange
     To see him stated thus, as though he went
     A shroving through the City

“shrove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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