fun fair
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fun fair
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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The first animals at Battersea Park Children's Zoo lived in a fun fair.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
She imagines robotic coyotes that will swallow the cats and remove them to an enclosed fun fair, where they can live out the rest of their lives playing with squeaky catnip toys.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
Soldiers at a Pyongyang fun fair in 2010.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2013
We went on the wheel at Battersea fun fair, and we had lots of dinners together.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2011
Finally two African women in flowing, colourful robes came out, laughing like they’d just been at the fun fair.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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