English Dictionary

maypole

名詞

慣用表現 婉語

A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. / (idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady.

日本語の意味

メイポール：メイデー（5月祭）を祝うために、人々がリボンや装飾を施して柱の周りを踊る際に使用される装飾された棒。 / 比喩的な意味：非常に背が高い少女または若い女性。

Children wove colorful ribbons around the maypole as the band struck up a lively tune.

子供たちは、バンドが陽気な曲を演奏し始めると、5月祭を祝うためにリボンで飾られ人々がその周りで踊る柱に色とりどりのリボンを絡ませた。

意味（1）

A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady.

意味（3）

(ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.

The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.

意味（4）

(euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one.

and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

maypoles （ plural ）