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  What it means

  After Saint Dorothy’s day, hang your scarves on the fence. From February 6th, the weather is mild enough to dry headscarves and cloths outdoors ; another folk marker of winter’s end.

  Vocabulary

  • święta Dorota — Saint Dorothy (feast day: February 6)
  • wieszać — to hang
  • chusta — scarf, headscarf, cloth
  • płot — fence

  Grammar note

  'Wieszaj' is the imperative of 'wieszać'. 'Na płocie' ; locative.

  Cultural context

  St. Dorothy's feast day (February 6) falls just after St. Agatha's, and both are used as early-spring weather markers in Polish folk tradition.

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