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Meanings of maypole dance in English

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Type of ribbon dance.

Usage of maypole dance in English
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MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance?
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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The Maypole dances had been banished, games and laughter were frowned upon.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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They had a rehearsal of the Maypole dance and crowning the next day.
More William
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Edith was one of the child singers in the Maypole dance, and her mother was a nun.
The new yorker
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In the evening they used to have a Maypole dance, while the little queen sat and watched them.
Chatterbox, 1906
7
A Maypole dance closes the scene.
A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1...
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Our own maypole dances may be instanced as one survival of the ancient worship of the male generative principle.
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Th...
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The dance was called the Maypole dance, and it had proper steps of its own, just like any other dance.
Chatterbox, 1906
10
Earlier writers mention "the scolding violin," and describing the Maypole dance tell of not hearing the "minstrelsie for the fiddling."
For Every Music Lover / A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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I rather think it must have come from Merry Mount, where they held the first Maypole dance and shocked good Cotton Mather.
Kit of Greenacre Farm
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Festivities of various sorts were held on this early playground, always a May day celebration with its Maypole dance and its May queen.
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes