Definitions
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- noun See
kirmess .
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- noun Alternative form of
kirmess .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He caught my eye racing in Belgium this spring, winning kermesse races left and right.
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Although “La foire aux plaisirs” (sometimes called “la kermesse”) is often the expression used for the annual school fete, there is a unique and gigantic “Funfair” called “La Foire aux plaisirs”, in the town of Bordeaux (twice a year, for 3 weeks – a tradition since 1850).
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Russians, in my experience, are part-drunk most of the time, but if there's a sober soul between the Black Sea and the Caspian for weeks after the Rostov kermesse he must be a Baptist hermit; Taganrog was littered with returned revellers.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Jean Charest-Mike Harris: meme combat, meme charisme, meme kermesse des biens et services publics.
Archive 2007-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007
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MC Ice is back, he gonna burn you like a fried egg poach you on the road like a commuter in a kermesse on the bike, mic or computer my palmarès are the best
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Although “La foire aux plaisirs” (sometimes called “la kermesse”) is often the expression used for the annual school fete, there is a unique and gigantic “Funfair” called “La Foire aux plaisirs”, in the town of Bordeaux (twice a year, for 3 weeks – a tradition since 1850).
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If the costs are more than the family can cover, somebody will organize a kermesse to make money.
A Microcosmic Look at the Salutary Nature of Competition 2005
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And there'll be a kermesse, featuring an excellent array of traditional foods -- tamales, pozole, mole, ponche, and buñuelos.
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Everybody was pouring out to the city-gate, or returning from thence, where, in honor of some visit from the king of the Belgians and count and countess of Flanders, a festival was going on in imitation or rehearsal of the grand annual _kermesse_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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He had learned that his sweetheart and her mother were thinking of going to the kermesse, so he procured
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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