May Day sweep

A form of May-day sweep — One of the sweeps (chimney sweeps), clad in bright clothes and garlands and carrying a blackened broom, in a May Day parade.

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Meanings

nounMay Day sweep (plural May Day sweeps)

plural May Day sweeps

  1. alternativeAlternative form of May-day sweep.

    But to a child's vision at least those May Day sweeps did much to brighten the city dullness, and year by year I watched for them eagerly from the window.

    1925, Anne Carroll Moore, The three owls: a book about children's books, their authors, artists and critics, volume 1, page 305
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