jack-in-the-green

noun

1. (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations

Example Sentences

The boys would awaken the Jack-in-the-Green - a seven-foot character - at dawn on Blue Bell Hill, Chatham before parading through Rochester, Kent, collecting money.

From BBC

Other more recent revivals include Jack-in-the-Green in Hastings, East Sussex, which was reinstated by Mad Jack’s Morris Dancers in the 1980s.

From BBC

Mrs Bray had sailed and rustled into the room in a tremendously stiff green brocade dress, to be complimented by her lord as resembling a laurel hedge, and by her son for her May-day aspect and Jack-in-the-green look.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, you're covered with laurel, boy, like Jack-in-the-Green.

From Project Gutenberg

But one day Jack-in-the-Green was sitting on a stone, wondering what he should do next, when the rabbit crept softly behind him, and gave his tail a sharp pull.

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