kermis
noun
(in the Low Countries) a local, annual outdoor fair or festival.
kermess,
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a variation of
kermis.
Example Sentences
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But the curtain rose on the kermess scene and Richard made a sign to the stage-manager to go away.
From The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
It was the last day before kermess away at Louvain, and the Brabantois was in haste to reach the fair and get a good place for his truck of brass wares.
From Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) by Beatrice Harraden
The insolent wench looked at her derisively, and called out, "That will give you a good appetite for the kermess, Miss Prude."
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
She sat down, her face turned toward the windows so that she could see all the merry-makers on their way from the village to the kermess and hear their gay talk.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
Most of the inhabitants, with the exception of the children and decrepit old people, were more than four miles away at the kermess.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
