May queen

noun

1. a girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honored as queen in the festivities of May Day.

May queen

noun

1. a girl chosen, esp for her beauty, to preside over May-Day celebrations

Example Sentences

After graduating from Rockford High School, where she was May queen, Ms. Hale went to Chicago to study commercial art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

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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.

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When: Rain or shine on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., with maypole dances, crowning of a May queen, games, music and more on the Gazebo Stage at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

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May queen Harriet Farmer is knocked into a year-long coma by a cloaked figure while fleeing her father to elope with her boyfriend Finn.

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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.

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