Kermesse (festival)
kermesse kermis kirmess outdoor fair festival usually organized charitable purpose term derived kerk church mi mass original dutch language term borrowed english french spanish many language originally denoted mass patronal festival held anniversary foundation church parish honour patron saint celebration regularly held low country central europe also northern france accompanied feasting dancing competition kind kirchweih german equivalent church ale name similar festival england many catholic church parish still patronal festival sort anniversary church founding feast day saint dedicated kermesse became common subject dutch flemish renaissance painting th century though many painting called name probably intended depict village wedding arguably first kermesse annual parade mark event brussels massacre source say brussels entire jewish population city burnt alive expelled accused profaning basket communion host said bled stabbed according one source jewish resident could prove profane host killed merely banished brussels festivity still survive form funfair old allegorical representation uncommon whereas nearly every village kermis twice year large zuidfoor foire du midi south fair brussels sinksenfoor whitsun fair antwerp attract many visitor several week funfair vrijdagmarkt ghent coincides day long gentse feesten ghent festivity held across entire inner city around st july belgian national holiday standard dutch language expression vlaamse kermis flemish kermesse referred local village kermesse pronounced former county flanders though modern usage mainly limited privately organized fair open public often fundraising school youth organisation flemish region crew dutch ship gelderland used name griffeendt kermisgans dodo reference fowl fattened kermesse festival held day anchored mauritius dutch flemish renaissance painting continuing baroque period especially south kermesse scene popular genre painting typically show village festivity perhaps fact wedding similar dozen figure dancing drinking often flirting sometimes betterdressed figure look genre develops theme found smaller scale calendar latemedieval illuminated manuscript pieter bruegel elder nicknamed peasant bruegel fondness subject main progenitor large painted kermesse work like wedding dance c detroit figure peasant dance c vienna thought made set sitdown meal shown peasant wedding c vienna later work many descendant adopted distant view slightly bruegel developed subject allowing larger number figure word kermess generally form kirmess applied united state entertainment especially one organized interest charity dutchamerican village little chute wisconsin celebrated kermis annually since wallonian settlement door county wisconsin also celebrate kermis traditional belgian dish event another american polity celebrates holiday la kermesse biddeford maine international school indiana located indianapolis indiana hold annual kermesse celebration refreshment carnival game facepainting celebrate ending school year preelementary elementary pupil city halifax nova scotia canada city limited dutch heritage kermesses held since fundraiser local childrens hospital école française de vancouver éfiv north vancouver british columbia canada hold annual kermesse game food pétanque tournament community participation term also influence iberoamerican culture specifically paraguay mexico peru bolivia argentina chile kermeses held church school raise fund many activity take place including tombola people buy ticket drawing always award minor item bigger award brazil quermesses usually held church early week winter celebration widely popular festa junina festivity word also entered belarusian language кiрмаш kirmash meaning fair lithuanian language kermošius kermoshius mean fair mass church polish language us word kiermasz also started village church event time morphed synonym fair romanian chermeză mean party banquet italian kermesse mean festival show especially one featuring many different act turkish language kermes sale lady handiwork charity carnival event planning fair festival fête funfair hot dog day carl schurz reminiscence vol chap ii pp – paragraph recall tradition kirmess early th century rhenish prussia article incorporates text publication public domain chisholm hugh ed kermesse encyclopædia britannica vol th ed cambridge university press p naming source boulger demetrius c belgian life town country kermis van brussel – zuidkermis dutch archived original retrieved foire du midi davantage de convivialité french archived original retrieved short history beknopte historiek pdf dutch archived original pdf aperçu historique pdf french assumedly — text language city brussels archived original pdf retrieved brink herbert j dutch american retrieved one village little chute however continue promote dutch ethnicity midseptember celebration kermis featuring dutchcostume parade game craft exhibit medium related kermesses wikimedia common kermis van brussel – zuidkermis dutch archived original retrieved foire du midi davantage de convivialité french archived original retrieved short history beknopte historiek pdf dutch archived original pdf aperçu historique pdf french assumedly — text language city brussels archived original pdf retrieved old photograph brussels fair collection jeanpierre roels