kirmess
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English
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Etymology
From German Kirmes and Dutch kermis, both originally “church mass”, referring to a festival on the anniversary of the consecration of a church. See respective entries for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
kirmess (plural kirmesses)
- An outdoor festival and fair, usually in a German or Dutch-speaking country
- (US) An indoor entertainment and fair combined.
Translations
an outdoor festival and fair
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kirmess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)