May-day sweep

短语

发音

UK /meɪ deɪ swiːp/
US /meɪ deɪ swip/
AU

词形变化

May-day sweeps 复数 May-day sweeps

别名

May Day sweep

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One of the sweeps (chimney sweeps), clad in bright clothes and garlands and carrying a blackened broom, in a May Day parade.

    […] preceded by a drum and fife, and followed by the successful marksman, who, dressed out with flowers and ribands as fantastically as a May-day sweep in England, expressed his joy by dancing and pirouetting amidst his friends, who congratulated and cheered him.

    […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.

词源

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

来源：wiktionary