maypole
IPA: mˈeɪpoʊɫ
noun
- A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
- (idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady.
- (ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
- (euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one.
verb
- To dance or spin in a circle around something.
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Examples of "maypole" in Sentences
- A maypole was set up in his parish.
- Young girls dance around a maypole.
- Collinstown was known in the past as Maypole.
- It is situated with a duck pond and a maypole.
- The maypole is a common part of Beltane festivals.
- Many figures are carved into the wood of the maypole.
- It has a village green and a maypole, which is still in use.
- It is a picturesque village with a village green and a maypole.
- But the trend was not uniformly towards the banning of maypoles.
- The Butterflies excel in wholesome activities such as picnics and maypoles.
- For instance, there's the popular 'maypole,' and the dancing that goes with it.
- He's just kind of standing there while Lacey does her best maypole dancing around him.
- Puritans in England and the New World called for banning the maypole and May Day festivals.
- Ribbons, pearl and purple, dangle from the maypole down to the pale hands of children, who pull them, giggling.
- At any rate, it appears that the cobblers 'apprentices chose to call their maypole "Fidlovatchka," and that they carried it about on their feast-day, the Wednesday after Easter.
- This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads.
- Forty years later, Barrow takes The Queue and uses it as a highly idiosyncratic maypole around which stories of the brothers' childhood, adolescence and early adulthood cavort and whirl.
- Whiskey and beer flowed freely, and whites and Indians cavorted, copulated, and danced wildly around a maypole, a Pagan invention that had become the symbol of fun and leisure in villages across England.
- Southbank Centre, SE1, to 25 Apr Cuckoo Festival, Marsden, SatMorris dancers around a maypole, workshops, storytelling, crafts, street theatre, a rubber duck race and the time-honoured village cuckoo procession bring a touch of olde worlde mythic magic to this spring party.
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