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Definitions of maypole in various dictionaries:
noun - a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
A pole decorated with streamers that those celebrating May Day hold while dancing.
noun - a decorated pole used in a spring celebration
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| There be dancing about this beribboned shaft every faire day, not merely once in the year |
| A tall, thin mistress of George I was nicknamed this, for a tall, thin thing folks dance around on May 1 |
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| a painted pole, decorated with flowers, round which people traditionally dance on May Day holding long ribbons attached to the top. |
| a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day |
| a tall pole with long ribbons ( narrow strips of cloth) attached to the top of it, the ends of which people hold as they dance around the pole on the first of May |
| A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. |
| A penis, especially a large one. |
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A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. * The festivals may occur on May Day (May 1st) or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at Midsummer. In some cases the maypole is a permanent feature that is only utilised during the festival, although in other cases it is erected specifically for the purpose before being taken down again. * Primarily found within the nations of Germanic Europe and the neighbouring areas which they have influenced, its origins remain unknown, although it has been speculated that it originally had some importance in the Germanic paganism of Iron Age and early Medieval cultures, and that the tradition survived Christianisation, albeit losing any original meaning that it had; other scholars have found that the custom of the maypole arose in the context of medieval Christian Europe. It has been a recorded practice in many parts of Europe througho |