First of May

NOUN
  1. observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor
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  • The first toast at every festival here was drunk in his honour, and, besides the first of May, one day in every week was held sacred to him, and, from his Saxon name, Woden, was called Woden's day, whence the English word "Wednesday" has been derived. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
  • Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins. The Seattle Times
  • On the first of May every year, the villagers would make merry in the village, dancing, singing and drinking.
  • One quick stop was made at the abandoned New First of May mine, where on the ore pile we found galena, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and fluorite.
  • The first toast at every festival here was drunk in his honour, and, besides the first of May, one day in every week was held sacred to him, and, from his Saxon name, Woden, was called Woden's day, whence the English word "Wednesday" has been derived. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
  • Rubempre, endorsed to order of Metivier, and finally to our order, matured the thirtieth of April last, protested by Doublon, process-server, on the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.fr. c. Eve and David
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