[1] The word shrove is the past tense of the English verb shrive, which means to give absolution for someone's sins by way of confession and forgiveness.

[2][3] The British name Collopy Monday is after the traditional dish of the day, consisting of slices of leftover meat (collops of bacon) along with eggs.

In the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar (most years falling later than the Western Church, usually in March), the start of Lent is called Clean Monday.

Clean Monday is the first day of the Great Lent, and is traditionally considered the beginning of spring in Greece and Cyprus, where it is a Bank Holiday.

[9] In the 19th-century Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, a kambule (procession of people holding torches) took place in the earliest hours of Shrove Monday.