MAY-POLE
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| a tall pole fixed upright in an open space during May-Day celebrations, around which people dance holding streamers attached at its head | |
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maypole
"high pole painted with spiral stripes and decorated with flowers, set up in public places for May Day celebrants to dance around," attested from 1550s but certainly much older, as the first mention of it is in an ordinance banning them, and there are references to such erections, though not by this
name, from a mid-14c. Welsh poem. See May Day.
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