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A local outdoor festival of the Low Countries originally held annually on the feast day of the local patron saint. Also: An entertainment and fair usually given for the purpose of raising money.

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  • In Eindhoven, the kermis Park Hilaria was on the street bordering the uni here.
  • Yesterday one of the secretaries asked one of the Dutch PhD students, in Dutch, what the English word for kermis was, and I immediately said “carnival”.
  • They spent a riotous afternoon; there was a small kermis, a fair, tucked away behind the main street and the three of them tried each one of its attractions, and when...
  • The Middelburg kermis is a particularly merry one.
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