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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Derbyshire

Maypoles are to be seen in some of the village-greens still standing, and adorned with garlands on May-day. On this morning, too, the young village women go out about sunrise for the purpose of washing their faces in the May-dew, and return in the full hope of having their complexions improved by the process.—Jour. of Arch. Assoc., 1852, vol. vii. p. 206.

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