(n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(2) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
(3) The mum was into reading – she absolutely loved books – and the maypole dancing we used to do.
(4) 9.26pm GMT The maypole dancers have yanked their ribbons away, and now Katy is just hanging in mid-air in a sparkly top that's got lots of lights trained at it.
(5) However, she's singing on top of a maypole, so that's nice.
(6) The central monument in the square was turned into a Maypole and a tent was foisted on top of it.
(7) Beating Chelsea is never going to be as easy as a dance around the maypole but José Mourinho has threatened to make it that incy-wincy bit more straightforward.
(8) The different parts of the building have different lifts and entrances, which reduces the chances of maypole dancing or whatever its modern equivalent might be.
(9) The prologue, which began an hour before the show itself, was a tableau vivant of rural English life in the 18th century: a prelapsarian age of cows, goats, geese, sheep, a shire horse, a bank of wild flowers, a mill race, a Cotswold stone cottage with smoking chimneys, a wheatfield stippled with poppies, a wooden barn, a trio of maypoles, a kitchen garden, rustic games of cricket and football, a cluster of bee hives, picnics, a sturdy oak tree, fluffy white clouds tethered to squads of minders and slowly circling the arena.
(10) Somewhere over the course of the past 100 years, the term has shifted meaning somewhat to include those who lament that one-third of the world is no longer painted red, those who insist the country went to the dogs with the introduction of decimal currency and those who think the only thing that can save us is the construction of maypoles in every village, regular flypasts by a lone Lancaster bomber and a law decreeing that all foreigners should be seen and not heard.
(11) The long-debated revamp of the Surrey town prompted a day of celebrations on Sunday – from maypole dancing to a regatta – as the town set out to prove it was more glamorous than its M25 commuter-belt image, association with Ali G or its "ghost town" depiction by indie band Hard-Fi might suggest.
Streamer
Definition:
(n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
(n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
(n.) A searcher for stream tin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sertoli cells possessed a "streamer" like formation of strong TPPase activity spreading from basal to apical portion.
(2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
(3) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
(4) A class of aggregation pattern mutants called 'streamers' have been isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum and analysed genetically.
(5) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
(6) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
(7) Streamer F mutants have been found to be useful tools for studying the pathway of signal transduction leading to chemotactic cell movement.
(8) The growing tips and fine spike-like sprouts called 'streamers' were also highly stained with laminin immunoreactivity.
(9) The total number of complementation groups giving the streamer phenotype is estimated from statistical calculation, based on the frequency of allelism, to be between seven and nine.
(10) Still 0-0 1.16am GMT 48 mins The most exciting thing to have happened in this second half so far are the enormous number of streamers that descended on Jimmy Nielsen and the KC goal area.
(11) "Twitch remains a lot more 'wild west', with streamers often playing music in the background without thinking too much about copyright law.
(12) "It is customary to welcome the team in Argentina with a display of fireworks, bombardas (small bombs that make a big noise but do not actually explode) and confetti - plus paper streamers that are mostly rolls of toilet paper.
(13) Measurements in streamer F mutant cells reveal that cGMP likely plays a role in the regulation of the cAMP-induced hyperpolarization.
(14) If your daughter has a pink bike with streamers on the handlebars, and those elements are understood as distinctly feminine, then you're far less likely to hand it on to your son.
(15) Bacterial colony counts and quantitative estimation of vaginal epithelial cells were performed on urine collected by 18 female volunteers using conventional clean-catch technics and on urine collected by the same 18 women using the Clean Streamer.
(16) There might still be a few empty seats, but someone at least thought to bring a massive yellow streamer and launch it out onto the field near the left sideline.
(17) Characteristic features of pattern alopecia included: the presence of miniature or vellus follicles; a marked enlargement of the sebaceous glands and arrectores pilorum muscles; the presence of connective tissue streamers beneath the vellus follicles; and the thinning of the dermis.
(18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "At the start of the Copa Libertadores final at Boca Juniors, the fans converted their stadium into a garbage dump by covering the playing field in litter and draping paper streamers over the goal posts with no attempt to clear the debris," noted Ian Simpson, way back when.
(19) Bleeding is a major consideration; surface tension tends to keep venous blood oozing along surfaces, whereas pulsatile arterial blood forms droplets, streamers, and clouds, depending on the force of the bleeding.
(20) This isolate produced copious amounts of extracellular polymer at 10 C in the laboratory and was considered to be the primary source of polymer in the "acid streamer" slime matrix.