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Definition of Kirmesses
1. kirmess [n] - See also: kirmess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirmesses
Literary usage of Kirmesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"people's equivalent for the expensive feastings and revels of the grandees was
found in kirmesses and carnivals. The forced sobriety of these uncultivated ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"His numerous excellent pictures, consisting of battle scenes, kirmesses, pastorals,
and children's play scenes, landscapes, and marines, are in private ..."
3. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... alone preserved the mimetic impulse through the earlier dark ages; for there
is scarcely a custom or a ceremonial of the folk from the wakes, kirmesses, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"To describe the impression given by his Susannas, Magdalenes, his Saint Sebastians,
his graces, his sirens, his great kirmesses of divinity and humanity, ..."
5. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"... where Ohm Rey lived; and in between many more kirmesses on the farms of uncles
and cousins. To most of them the whole family went, including the ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"To describe the impression given by his Susannas, Magdalenes, his Saint Sebastians,
his graces, his sirens, his great kirmesses of divinity and humanity, ..."
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