Maypole
noun
a tall pole, decorated with flowers and ribbons, around which people dance or engage in sports during May Day celebrations.
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Maypole
American
[may-pohl]
/ ˈmeɪˌpoʊl /
noun
(often lowercase)
maypole
British
/ ˈmeɪˌpəʊl /
noun
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Maypole, who also is a cartoonist, has been illustrating tips and advice about the virus that can be found on Twitter.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2020
Scandinavian arts and crafts vendors will be on hand; kids activities will include a costume parade, and a Maypole raising will be held at 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2013
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
One day in early April, during recess, Mrs. Butler ushered us outside on the playground and measured us for the Maypole dance.
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
Rather, it’s when a birch tree maypole descends from the skies and Soo leads the chorus in an exhilarating “The Lusty Month of May.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
On the contrary, take a peek at the Habsburg family lineage which between the early 1500s and the 1700s, nearly straightened their tree into a maypole.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2022
There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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