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Definition of May queen
1. Noun. The girl chosen queen of a May Day festival.
Definition of May queen
1. Noun. A girl chosen to walk at the front of the May Day procession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of May Queen
Literary usage of May queen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson (1906)
"... FROM "THE may queen" You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother
dear; To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; ..."
2. The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George Putnam Upton (1887)
"A despondent lover enters and sings his melancholy plight as he reflects upon
the fickleness of the may queen, interrupted at intervals by the merry shouts ..."
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