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Festival vs Kirmess - What's the difference?

festival | kirmess |

As nouns the difference between festival and kirmess

is that festival is while kirmess is an outdoor festival and fair, usually in belgium or holland.

festival

English

(wikipedia festival)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
  • In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

    • Related terms

    * festive * festivities

    kirmess

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kermesse * kermis

    Noun

    (es)
  • An outdoor festival and fair, usually in Belgium or Holland.
  • (US) An indoor entertainment and fair combined.
    • (Webster 1913)