Donnybrook Fair

American  

[don-ee-brook] / ˈdɒn iˌbrʊk /

noun

1. a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.

2. donnybrook.

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Example Sentences

Cracked souls, and a Donnybrook Fair of the emotions.

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Then he "stands at ease," and relates an anecdote with the rollicking air of a horse-jockey at Donnybrook Fair.

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Donnybrook Fair was never anything to the scene we now witnessed.

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In America, college men give comic operas and burlesques, usually writing both the book and the music themselves; and when they do, there is apt to be a Donnybrook Fair for vulnerable heads in the faculty.

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In the center of the picture Kelly, with Ben Butler as a partner, is doing a dance in the most approved manner of Donnybrook Fair.

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