Significados de maypole (maypoles) en inglés

They were fluttering criss-cross cages of colour, like maypoles about to unfurl.

All their time is spent in talk and sylvan wandering, with music and dancing round maypoles.

The tall girls stretched themselves till they looked like maypoles, and said, "Poor thing!"

She wanted her churches, and her theatres, her cock-pits and taverns, and bear-gardens and maypoles back again.

I warrant that he would have aided Colonel Pride to shoot the bears and hack down the maypoles.'

She had evidently been one of those tall thin maypoles of women who have but little tenderness in them.

These ceremonies of Death and Life are more complex than the simple carrying in of green boughs or even the dancing round maypoles.

People on the left tend to be as embarrassed by morris dancing and maypoles as they are by the flag of St George.

There was a fixed Maypole in the Strand for many years-orrather a succession of Maypoles.

Maypoles would be raised, hawthorn bushes decorated-thatwas about as much as the king would allow.

Maypoles are sometimes used as part of the Ostara festivities, and these represent the phallus of the Young God.

Round these Maypoles the young villagers danced, and green booths were often set up on the grass near them.

Beyond her was a row of milkmaid beauties, red of cheek, free of eye, deep-bosomed, and beribboned like Maypoles.

Maypoles, a "Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness", shall be taken down by officers or forfeit 5s.

"Maybe Worthy'll be takin' Kate to the maypoles." The Widow gave her a bright look.

Maypoles, a "Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness", shall be taken down by officers or else forfeit 5s.