单词 | maypole dancing |
释义 | > as lemmasmaypole dancing maypole dancing n. ΚΠ 1649 Ἕικων Ἀλήθινη 8 Commanding his holy day to be prophaned by sports unbeseeming a Christian people at any time, and such were ceremonies onely become the celebration of Floraes Feasts, once Romes so famous strumpet. [margin] May-pole dancing. 1863 Ladies' Compan. 23 319/2 I think the poor—the rural poor, especially—would prefer the maypole-dancing and all the other open-air amusements of their fathers' time. 1985 B. Jagger Song Twice Over (1986) 190 At Almsmead we have everything that a gentleman could possibly require, hunting and shooting and fishing and maypole dancing and cricket on the village green. < as lemmas |
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