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Meanings of maypole dance in английском

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Type of ribbon dance.

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        Examples for "maypole dancing"
        Examples for "maypole dancing"
        1
        It doesn't look quite so heinous to us, this Maypole dancing, as it did to the outraged Puritans.
        The Old Coast Road / From Boston to Plymouth
        2
        "He's the one who organized stuff like the Maypole dancing and that naming ceremony."
        The Dreaming Place
        Usage of maypole dance in английском
        1
        MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout.
        Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
        2
        A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance?
        Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
        3
        The Maypole dances had been banished, games and laughter were frowned upon.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        4
        They had a rehearsal of the Maypole dance and crowning the next day.
        More William
        5
        Edith was one of the child singers in the Maypole dance, and her mother was a nun.
        The new yorker
        6
        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...
        8
        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...
        9
        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
        11
        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
        12
        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