Donnybrook Fair

[ don-ee-brook ]

noun
  1. a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.

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How to use Donnybrook Fair in a sentence

  • The spirit of Donnybrook Fair is there today as much as ever, and wherever you see a head, hit it, would be home rule.

  • He picked it up at Donnybrook Fair, and applied it practically in his present predicament.

  • A head in this creek to-day is like a head at Donnybrook Fair, anybody will hit it if it is possible to do so.

    An Undivided Union | Oliver Optic
  • Do you mind that shtick—big enough to sarve as a respictable shillalah at Donnybrook Fair?

    In the Pecos Country | Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA Lieutenant R.H. Jayne)
  • Where has the pugilistic hilarity of the Irish scope as at Donnybrook Fair?

    The Collector | Henry T. Tuckerman