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Answer for the clue "What some celebrations are centered around ", 7 letters:
maypole

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Word definitions for maypole in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"high striped pole decorated with flowers and ribbons for May Day merrymakers to dance around," attested from 1550s but certainly much older, as the first mention of it is in an ordinance banning them, and there are references to such erections, though ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. 2 (context euphemistic English) A penis, especially a large one.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A maypole is a tall wooden pole. Maypole may also refer to:

Usage examples of maypole.

With great nimbleness, he shinned up the maypole and clung to it for dear life.

The maypole was hewn from old English oak and would never snap of its own accord.

There was sawdust in the tiring-house where the maypole was kept before it was used.

When the maypole broke, he made light of the accident in front of the spectators.

Stokehursts spent the afternoon observing the Maypole dance with the Pendletons.

Linking hands, they circled the flower-wrapped Maypole and sang pagan songs about trees, the earth, and the moon.

Tasia circled the Maypole until the world reeled around her, the torch flames dancing like fireflies.

Who, visiting those parts, caused that maypole to be cut down and rebuked them for their profaneness and admonished them to look there should be better walking.

One sketch they kept repeating showed a mixture of big and little figures dancing around a maypole affair.

But all they did was to set it up in the center like the maypole in their sketches, and sing harder.

Well, you know all about it, those first weeks with the Siggies touring around and singing in front of churches and mosques and temples, and the Unitarian minister coming out to hold joint services in the open air, and the kids wearing maypole buttons and Great Pupa buttons and all the rest.

Red and Yellow Siggies were on their way out of our system, leaving us with five smashed cities, innumerable wrecked houses of religion, and more maypole effigies of the Great Pupa than could be counted before they were melted down.

They may have spent some time around the old Straits Hotel and the Maypole Bar in Singapore.

He may have been part of the Straits Hotel, Maypole Bar crowd in Singapore.

Also, anyone familiar with Singapore in the late 1920s, the old Straits Hotel, and the Maypole Bar.