"pole" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Once the bird was dead, the boys would carry it around the town on a pole decorated with ribbons, wreaths, and flowers The live bird is now replaced with a fake one that is hidden.
- The dancers dance holding a ribbons around a large pole decorated with ribbons and flowers, representing an ancestral fertility celebration.
- The pole, decorated with ribbons, wreaths and flowers, as well as the Wren, was the centre of the dance.
- On 14 April, a huge pole, decorated with leaves and garlands and two streamers representing snakes, is erected in a field on the outskirts.
- A parallel to the pole erected before Telepinus may be seen in the pole decorated with foliage often depicted in Assyrian and Babylonian seals with attendant figures on, each side of it engaged in some kind of ritual act.
- He supports his aching arms on waist-high poles decorated with flowers.
- For example, the Saint Tammany Day celebrated on May 1, 1771, in Annapolis had a may pole decorated with ribbons.
- The gray-shingled white wood-trimmed house, complete with an American flag hanging from a pole decorated with an American eagle finial, opens out to a stone-floored patio with white wicker lawn chairs and potted flowers.
- Palo de Mayo, or Maypole, is a celebration welcoming rain, production, new life and including a maypole, which is a tall wooden pole, decorated with several long, colored ribbons suspended from the top.
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