kermis

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He liked the roaring dynamism of the El, and in Election Night, 1907, he combined it with a flushed, disorderly crowd in a sort of modern kermis.

From Time Magazine Archive

There had been a kermis at this farm; and kinsfolk had come to eat waffles, ham and custards with their family.

From The Wrack of the Storm by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The whole transaction is but an affair of battered kermis, intrinsically not worth a moment's consideration; but it serves its purpose of affording an interesting insight into the character of my escort.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

The working people reckon their good times from one St. Bridget's kermis to the next.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

The lad takes his girl about everywhere; they go to the kermis, skate, and amuse themselves, and no one troubles or inquires about them.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.