Lexicographical Neighbors of Kermises
Literary usage of Kermises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"kermises' 17 years; - he was of the race of ... We thus get:— kermises', o.
AD 751-758. ..."
2. Friesland Meres and Through the Netherlands: The Voyage of a Family in a by Henry Montagu Doughty (1890)
"kermises are constant; in some town or other, one is always going on the summer
through. The long line advanced slowly, with now and then a little spurt as ..."
3. Proceedings Americanization Conference: Held Under the Auspices of the by Americanization Division, United States (1919)
"In Belgium you might be in time for the kermises (local fairs), the carnival (Shrove
Sunday), or at least to see them playing at " drowning the dove," or at ..."
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