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Shrove Tuesday day before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent ). In the Latin countries it is the last day of the carnival, called by the French Mardi Gras .

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Shrove Tuesday Day before Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent. See also Mardi gras

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Shrove Tuesday. The day immediately before Ash Wednesday, so named from the ‘shriving’, i.e. confession and absolution, of the faithful on that day.

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