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Queen of the May   /kwin əv ðə meɪ/   Listen
Queen of the May

noun
1.
The girl chosen queen of a May Day festival.  Synonym: May queen.





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"Queen of the May" Quotes from Famous Books



... planting the shaft in the ground; and after them a troop of maidens, bearing bundles of rushes. Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine. Then followed the Queen of the May, walking by herself,—a rustic beauty, hight Gillian Greenford,—fancifully and prettily arrayed for the occasion, and attended, at a little distance, by Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, the ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth


Words linked to "Queen of the May" :   young woman, miss, young lady, fille, girl, missy


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