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ale pole en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of alepole.
   alt of alepole
   • A common kind of alehouse sign — not a "brand name" like the Sun and Moon (which existed in Aldersgate, London, in Shakespeare's day), but a generic sign identifying the type of business conducted within — was an "ale pole." 2002, Kirstin Olsen, All Things Shakespeare: A-I, page 5:
   • The next step was a carved or painted effigy of an animal or bird, such as a swan, which was fixed in a hoop and hung at the end of the ale pole. 1954, Brewing Review - Volume 68, Issue 2, page 13:
   • The ale pole is not merely a signification that it is a good thing to drink ale: it is more than a witness to the fact that ale was brewed fifteen hundred years ago. 1958, Clifford William Dugmore, The Mass and the English Reformers, page 104:

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