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 Stevens, Thomas

They see each other at the kermis, or in the street, or fields.

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

Flushing does little to amuse its visitors after the sun has left the sea; and we were very glad of the excuse offered by the Middelburg kermis to return to our inland city each afternoon.

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

As soon as I finish making the mannikins for the knitting bags at the kermis.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro