kirmess

American  

[kur-mis] / ˈkɜr mɪs /

noun

1. a variant of kermis.

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kirmess British  

/ ˈkɜːmɪs /

noun

1. a variant spelling of kermis

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Example Sentences

Combativeness and the lust of vituperation are in the blood of the Bavarian people; it is all one, whether we look for them in a riotous kirmess or in blunt ridicule, in the poetic improvisations of which the quick-witted peasants, being especially gifted in mimicry, are unsurpassed.

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Moreover, their sweethearts must be allowed in the house, or they come to fetch them; we must let them dance in the streets, and they are up to all sorts of mischief during the Kirmess festival.

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In out-of-the-way parts of Germany, as in the Upper Eisel District, at the village feast called “Kirmess” a bough is hung out at a house door to shew that refreshment may be obtained there. 

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Poor fellows!" he thought, "there they go to death as joyously as if it were a kirmess dance.

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His name often appears in the social columns of the daily papers of Los Angeles, as the leader of some fashionable dancing party or Kirmess.

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