May queen
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
A picnic was planned to Dover's Grove, and the romantic little girls had insisted upon a May queen, and Lucy was unanimously elected.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Lord Byron in "Don Juan" adorns this crime until it smiles like a May queen.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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 Addams, Jane
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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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