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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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
At Amsterdam we saw the last grand kermess or annual fair ever held there.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
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
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
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
