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
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 Thomas Stevens
As soon as I finish making the mannikins for the knitting bags at the kermis.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
They see each other at the kermis, or in the street, or fields.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
Two years ago, as usual, I had mingled as a pedestrian with the pleasure-seeking visitors of the kermis.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
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