May-day sweep

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /meɪ deɪ swiːp/    美 /meɪ deɪ swip/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the sweeps (chimney sweeps), clad in bright clothes and garlands and carrying a blackened broom, in a May Day parade.
    — The common herd of mortals invent excuses : they shuffle like a May-day sweep, and lie like the prospectus of a new Magazine.

词形变化

May-day sweeps plural May Day sweep alternative

词源

From May Day (“workers' spring holiday”) + sweep (“ellipsis of chimney sweep”).
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