fair-day

There's a woman in Eirinn who'd be mad with envy if I was kissed by another on fair-day, they have strange ways, but I love them all.

Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland) de Brantigny........................ 2009

Selkirk fair-day, excited the eager curiosity of some mechanics of

The Monastery 2008

Once, in muddy weather, when Pansy was walking with her down the street of Castle Boterel, on a fair-day, a packet in front of her and a packet under her arm, an accident befell the packets, and they slipped down.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

‘Come fair-day we shall have to light up before we start for home-along.’

Wessex Tales 2006

The stir and hum were almost worthy of a minor fair-day.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

The stir and hum were almost worthy of a minor fair-day.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

There was a fair held annually in the neighbourhood of Brienne, where the pupils of the Military School used to find a day's amusement; but on account of a quarrel betwixt them and the country people upon a former occasion, or for some such cause, the masters of the institution had directed that the students should not on the fair-day be permitted to go beyond their own precincts, which were surrounded with a wall.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) Various

The street was in the great confusion of a fair-day, crowded with burgesses and landward tenants, men and women from all parts of the countryside still on their way back from flight, or gathered for news of Inverlochy from the survivors, of whom we were the last to arrive.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Inneraora fair-day, banned by Kirk, and soundly beaten by the Doomster in name of law.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

If the great fair-day had been on when we reached Langholm we should not have been surprised at being unable to find lodgings, but as it was we could only attribute our failure to arriving at that town so late in the evening, nearly an hour after the authorised closing time of the inns.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor