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  • noun Plural form of fairgoer.

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Examples

  • That policy says fair workers are supposed to announce severe thunderstorm warnings and direct fairgoers to safety.

    Indiana fair officials had warning of dangerous winds 2011

  • Klotz insisted fair officials followed protocol in warning fairgoers throughout the evening, as information became available.

    Indiana fair officials had warning of dangerous winds 2011

  • Officials notified fairgoers about the weather over a public address system, but the governor says no one could have predicted such a powerful wind gust.

    US Fair Stage Collapses, Killing Five 2011

  • This year, the town will host the 27th annual Feria Nacional del Queso y de Vino, an event that draws local, national and international participants eager to showcase their products and provide samples to fairgoers.

    Making merry in May: Mexico's National Cheese and Wine Festival 2009

  • - Norma "Duffy" Lyon, whose life-size butter sculptures of cows, Elvis and even Jesus and his disciples delighted Iowa state fairgoers for nearly half a century, has died.

    Norma Lyon, Iowa State Fair's 'Butter Cow Lady,' Dies At 81 The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Blumenfeld and many of slightly more than 51 million fairgoers watched the world's first computers whir while marveling at microwaves heating up their snacks.

    Can the Shanghai Expo compete with world's fairs of the past? 2010

  • This year, the town will host the 27th annual Feria Nacional del Queso y de Vino, an event that draws local, national and international participants eager to showcase their products and provide samples to fairgoers.

    Making merry in May: Mexico's National Cheese and Wine Festival 2009

  • Indeed, when Ferran was invited in 2007 to participate in Documenta, an important contemporary art fair held every five years in Kassel, Germany his contribution was to serve dinner to a couple chosen daily from among the fairgoers in Kassel and sent to elBulli for the night, his inclusion prompted outrage among some critics precisely because he was being treated like any other artist.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • In the main hall, fairgoers are likely to crowd around David Zwirner's solo show of Adel Abdessemed, a Paris-based artist whose new work includes a barbed-wire cowboy hat.

    Shopping for a New Barbed-Wire Cowboy Hat Kelly Crow 2010

  • The only problem is that certain mouth-breathing fairgoers don't understand that holding a long pointed stick pointing outward (instead of vertically) in a crowded place is dangerous.

    Archive 2009-08-02 Tyler 2009

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