May queen
Americannoun
noun
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Social life, whether it was the crowning of a May queen, the eulogy to a dead president, or an all-night dance, could be held nowhere else.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Alice, a bright-eyed, merry child, was chosen May queen, and, being afraid she might oversleep herself, told her mother to be sure to call her early.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
He shall love you better than he loves the May queen.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage
Patty came next, and surely a fairer May queen never went to her coronation.
From Patty's Suitors by Carolyn Wells
Festivities of various sorts were held on this early playground, always a May day celebration with its Maypole dance and its May queen.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams
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