shrovetide in English
noun
1
Shrove Tuesday and the two days preceding it, when it was formerly customary to attend confession.
Valentine's Day was interesting in 1602, because in that year it was also Shrove Sunday, the first day of Shrovetide - the three days associated with revels, carnival, misrule, and inversion of roles ending on Shrove Tuesday.
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1. Do you like hearing the Moscow church bells ringing at Shrovetide?
2. For at least one hundred years, entire villages have competed with each other in rough, and sometimes violent, ballgames in England (Shrovetide football) and Ireland (caid).