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Significats de maypole (maypoles) en anglès

Encara no tenim significats per a "maypoles".
Ús de maypoles en anglès
1
They were fluttering criss-cross cages of colour, like maypoles about to unfurl.
A Time of Gifts
2
All their time is spent in talk and sylvan wandering, with music and dancing round maypoles.
Nonsenseorship
3
The tall girls stretched themselves till they looked like maypoles, and said, "Poor thing!"
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
4
She wanted her churches, and her theatres, her cock-pits and taverns, and bear-gardens and maypoles back again.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
5
I warrant that he would have aided Colonel Pride to shoot the bears and hack down the maypoles.'
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
6
She had evidently been one of those tall thin maypoles of women who have but little tenderness in them.
Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
7
These ceremonies of Death and Life are more complex than the simple carrying in of green boughs or even the dancing round maypoles.
Ancient Art and Ritual
8
People on the left tend to be as embarrassed by morris dancing and maypoles as they are by the flag of St George.
The Guardian
9
There was a fixed Maypole in the Strand for many years-orrather a succession of Maypoles.
Miscellanea
10
Maypoles would be raised, hawthorn bushes decorated-thatwas about as much as the king would allow.
Heir of Fire
11
Maypoles are sometimes used as part of the Ostara festivities, and these represent the phallus of the Young God.
Witch School's First Degree
12
Round these Maypoles the young villagers danced, and green booths were often set up on the grass near them.
Miscellanea
13
Beyond her was a row of milkmaid beauties, red of cheek, free of eye, deep-bosomed, and beribboned like Maypoles.
To Have and to Hold
14
Maypoles, a "Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness", shall be taken down by officers or forfeit 5s.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
15
"Maybe Worthy'll be takin' Kate to the maypoles." The Widow gave her a bright look.
Harvest Home
16
Maypoles, a "Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness", shall be taken down by officers or else forfeit 5s.
Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 177...
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