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Definitions of maypoles in various dictionaries:
noun - a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
noun - a decorated pole used in a spring celebration
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Plural form of maypole. |
a painted pole, decorated with flowers, round which people traditionally dance on May Day holding long ribbons attached to the top. |
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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 |