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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
Maypole dancing was popular in the village too - this image is from 1905.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2016
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
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
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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