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Maytime

American  
[may-tahym] / ˈmeɪˌtaɪm /

noun

  1. the month of May.


Etymology

Origin of Maytime

First recorded in 1795–1805; May + time


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For cinemaddicts who think that ordinary screen operetta is entertaining, Maytime may well constitute the best entertainment of 1937.

From Time Magazine Archive

By bringing in huge initial receipts, elaborate pictures like Maytime, Lost Horizon, A Star is Born have encouraged producers, never inclined to be pennywise, to spend stockholders' funds more freely than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of all the scores he has written in the past generation, he likes The Student Prince, The New Moon, Maytime and My Maryland best.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philosophically he makes a match between her and young Perley; and in Maytime in Marlow meets a former sweetheart, now a widow with two children.

From Time Magazine Archive

But those who knew her best in Cloverdale remember yet that from the Maytime of that year, Miss Jane’s face was glorified with a light never there before.

From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand

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