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Meanings of maypole in English

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Usage of maypole in English
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Villagers now have a common Christmas tree and one maypole, for example.
BBC
2
MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
3
The maypole dancers are in dull-green, dull-violet, and dull-blue, bronze, and slate-gray.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
4
A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance?
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
5
They could easily have used the same beautiful maypole for both midsommar parties.
The Farm
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The King is providing them with a maypole and music outside North Gate.
Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts
7
A large maypole was planted, and on the top was attached a wren.
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During th...
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The maypole and the dancing were as nothing to it.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
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Then there was the maypole obligation, quaintest among seigneurial claims.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
10
Noel is far too artistic to marry such a maypole.
Red Money
11
They could tell that she was tall for a girl, or tallish-nota maypole.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1
12
She'd had very little to do with the maypole's creation.
The witch of agnesi
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Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play.
Notre-Dame de Paris
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Couples were dancing arm in arm around the maypole.
The hangman's daughter
15
Well, Bess or no Bess, the maypole is waiting!
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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We shall soon be dancing around the maypole.
Wolf hall
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