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== Record ==
{{quote|<p>[1856 or earlier:]<br/>
Plough-boys.&mdash;Countrymen, who go about dressed in ribbon, &c., as Morris (Moorish) dancers on Plough Monday, perform the ''sword-dance'', &c. One is dressed as "<keyword>Maid Marion</keyword>," and is called the ''witch'', another in rags, and is called the ''fool'', &c. &c.<ref>{{:Thompson, Pishey 1856a}}, p. 718.</ref></p>}}

== IRHB comments ==
This entry occurs in a list of provincialisms. The use of the present tense suggests a then extant tradition.

== Lists and gazetteers ==
* Outside scope of {{:Lancashire, Ian 1984a}}.
* Outside scope of {{:Wiles, David 1981a}}, Appendix I.

== Sources ==
* {{:Gutch, Eliza 1908a}}, p. 175, cites Pishey Thompson, p 718 (see below.)
* {{:Thompson, Pishey 1856a}}, p. 718.
== Notes ==
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