kermesse
English
Noun
kermesse (plural kermesses)
- Alternative form of kirmess
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kermesse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch kermis, a bastardization of kerk (“church”) + mis (“mass”). Compare German Kirmes (“church mass”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kermesse f (plural kermesses)
Further reading
- “kermesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French kermesse.
Noun
kermesse f (uncountable)
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