kermis

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Bike races have been sent through buildings before – there is a legendary kermis in Belgium which went through a bar full of drinkers and cyclo-cross races are sometimes sent through beer tents – but this was about more than merely upping the returns in adjacent brasseries.

From The Guardian

But when the owner of the 17th-century work, “St. George’s Kermis With the Dance Around the Maypole,” sold it at a Sotheby’s auction in 2009, it drew more than four times that amount, or $2.1 million.

From New York Times

The first Kermis held at New Amsterdam was in October, 1659.

From Project Gutenberg

The Kermis, an Old World festival, was one of those early introduced at New Amsterdam.

From Project Gutenberg

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