Shrovetide

Shrovetide,—in its original meaning, signifies the time of confessing sins to a priest.

Dr. Kuhn says in several parts of Westphalia, at Shrovetide, cows' horns are decorated with white besoms with white handles.

It was on the eve of Shrovetide, in the wilds about sixty versts from the railroad.

It's Shrovetide, and the servant is simply beside herself; I must look out that something doesn't happen.

This collection contains thirty tragedies and comedies and thirty-six Fastnachtsspiele (Shrovetide plays) and Singspiele.