Shrove Tuesdayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Shrove Tuesday (plural Shrove Tuesdays)

1. 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.

同意語

• Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday
• Pancake Day
• Pancake Tuesday
• Carnival

参考

• Shrovetide

Further reading

• Shrove Tuesday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia