Hobby Horse

The term hobby horse is used, principally by folklorists, to refer to the costumed characters that feature in some traditional seasonal customs, processions and similar observances around the world. They are particularly associated with May Day celebrations, Mummers Plays and the Morris dance in England.

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Famous quotes containing the words hobby and/or horse:

    “My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “A marchant was therwith a forked berd,
    In mottelee, and hye on horse he sat,
    Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bevere hat,
    His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
    His resons he spak ful solempnely,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)