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mayflower
[ mey-flou-er ]
noun
- any of various plants that blossom in May, such as the hepatica or anemone in the United States, and the hawthorn or cowslip in England.
- Mayflower, the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton, England, to North America in 1620.
mayflower
1/ ˈmeɪˌflaʊə /
Mayflower
2/ ˈmeɪˌflaʊə /
noun
- the Mayflowerthe Mayflower the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
Mayflower
- The ship that carried the Pilgrims to America. It made a permanent landing near Plymouth Rock in 1620, after the Pilgrims had agreed to the Mayflower Compact .
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For all its training and preparation, though, the Mayflower 400 ended up falling a bit short of its goal.
Nearby, others waited to tour a replica of the Mayflower, the ship that carried the Pilgrims across the ocean.
In 1620, the English aboard the Mayflower made their way to Plymouth after making landfall in Provincetown.
The same ordeal played out across the continent in years that preceded and followed the Mayflower’s landing, though the Plymouth story—like all its analogues—was unique in its details.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower, an opportunity for reflection that has been swallowed up by the pandemic and division.
They picked me up in the District, and I gave them a place to drop me off in the District—around the Mayflower Hotel.
It turned out that Titanic had a wife, Mrs. Alice Thomas, who had been living with him at the Mayflower Hotel.
Were the Christmas-hating Puritans on the Mayflower “Scrooges”?
In Ghost Hawk, the “invaders from over the sea” are the English settlers on the Mayflower and later.
Loyalists included recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants alike.
The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
The colonists of Plymouth had formed their social compact in the cabin of the Mayflower.
While Standish and his men were busy exploring, the Mayflower rode at anchor, and its inmates barely escaped a horrible death.
Here they found friends waiting for them, and all ready to sail in the Mayflower.
The Mayflower boxed the compass, rounding the tip of the Cape and feeling her way in the circular harbor there.
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