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"etymology_text": "May Day (workers' spring holiday) + sweep (shortening of chimney sweep)",
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"ref": "1823, New Monthly Magazine, volume 8, page 355",
"text": "The common herd of mortals invent excuses : they shuffle like a May-day sweep, and lie like the prospectus of a new Magazine.",
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"ref": "1829, W. Brockedon, The Passes of the Alps, printed in The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, page 345 http://books.google.com/books?id=hSMAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&pg=PA344#v=onepage&q=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&f=false",
"text": "[…] 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."
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"ref": "1843, Punch, volume 5, page 158",
"text": "Thanks to certain alchemic pens, which have touched even garbage to gold-paper, murder has been as fine, and withal as jocund among us, as a May-day sweep.",
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"ref": "1847, Littell's Living Age, volume 12, page 296",
"text": "Brown and Emily Bustleton are whirling round as light as two pigeons over a dove-cot; Tozer, with that wicked whisking little Jones, spins along as merrily as a May-day sweep; Miss Joy is The partner of the happy Fred.",
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"ref": "1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221 http://books.google.com/books?id=YbkmAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&f=false",
"text": "[…] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head."
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"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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"(largely historical) 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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