Sentence examples for corn dolly from inspiring English sources
noun
A traditional figure made from straw, associated with pre-industrial harvest customs of Europe.
The Corn Dolly was based on a child who was always complaining, while The Silly King was just a silly story Sally loved.
That's a lot of corn dollies.
It's like school harvest festival, minus the tinned peaches and corn dollies.
It went into decline afterward, entering a period that Mrs. Blackburn disparages as "knobbly wood, corn dollies and basket making".
Reads Nursery in Norfolk and Keepers of Kent gave advice freely and despatched fantastic specimens wrapped in straw and bound in twine to look like giant corn dollies.
Up until recently craftmaking was really stuck in the 70s idea of corn dollies and fetes but Folksy has really moved it forwards.
The artisanal side, especially for a dress made in straw from the corn dollies of an ancient, pre-Christian Europe, let a breath of nature into the impenetrably dark McQueen world.
Its chief creative officer, Christopher Bailey, turned, instead, to craft, with whimsical woven straw hats like British pagan corn dollies, crocheted raffia sweaters, tribal patterns, felt bird appliqués and American Indian-style stitching on cork-soled shoes.
As the stage brightened, suggesting dawn becoming day, they ran and wove in daisy-chain and corn-dolly patterns, to the sounds of birdsong, bells and bagpipes.
