Maypole
noun
a tall pole, decorated with flowers and ribbons, around which people dance or engage in sports during May Day celebrations.
Maypole
American
[may-pohl]
/ ˈmeɪˌpoʊl /
noun
(often lowercase)
maypole
British
/ ˈmeɪˌpəʊl /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Maypole
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That said, “it’s a work in progress,” said Jack Maypole, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and father to three.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2020
However, Mark Vipond, chair of the Maypole Trust, said the centuries-old method had since been scrapped in favour of a crane after insurers caught wind.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2019
T-shirts -- swarmed around the grinning golfer as if he were a Maypole.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2013
A gilded Maypole had been set up in the river gardens on a square of turf which was enclosed by the famous Provencal rose bushes, already tipped with coral buds.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2012
By the time I had celebrated my twelfth birthday back on December 7, 1953, I'd believed I had put aside my hurt over being left out of all the Maypole dances forever.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
The traditional Scandinavian holiday of Midsummer welcomes it with maypole dancing, drinking, and romance.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023
We're also surrounded by frilly curtains and a maypole adorned with police tape and anti-pigeon spikes.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
These rights evolved in feudal England to grant landless villagers access to the lord of the manor’s lands for civic activities that had been conducted since “time immemorial,” such as ritual maypole dancing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
For example, they exiled an Anglican lawyer named Thomas Morton who rejected Puritan theology, befriended local Indigenous people, danced around a maypole and sold guns to the Natives.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020
There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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