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
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
Patty came next, and surely a fairer May queen never went to her coronation.
From Patty's Suitors by Wells, Carolyn
A May queen was decreed "too old"; a May masque too much trouble.
From Betty Wales, Sophomore by Warde, Margaret
But the persistent place given to the May queen rather than to the king suggests the earlier prominence of women and of female spirits of fertility or of a great Mother-goddess in such rites.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.
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