Lexicographical Neighbors of Kermesses
Literary usage of Kermesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anti-alcohol Movement in Europe by Ernest Barron Gordon (1913)
"244), describes the multiplication of drunken kermesses in Wallony. ... These are
authorised kermesses. Besides them are fêtes, balls, and so forth, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... Les kermesses' (1884), ' Les Milices de Saint-Francois' (1886), 'Les Nouvelles
kermesses' (1887), and 'La Nouvelle Carthage' (1888). ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... kermesses ( 1883), Nouvelles kermesses ( 1887), Le Cycle patibulaire (1892),
Mes Communions (1895), Estai Vigor (180.9) and La ..."
4. French Portraits: Being Appreciations of the Writers of Young France by Vance Thompson (1899)
"The same thought runs through the " Nouvelles kermesses." This book is a magnificent
paraphrase of Story's hymn to the conquered — may I not say a ..."
5. A History of Belgium from the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Émile Cammaerts (1921)
"The tragic side of life was not represented, and one might venture to say that
the admirers of such merry kermesses must often have taken their wish for the ..."
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