Kris Kringle Mart

noun

Synonym of Christkindlmarkt (“a Christmas market”).

Meanings

nounKris Kringle Mart (plural Kris Kringle Marts)

plural Kris Kringle Marts

  1. Synonym of Christkindlmarkt (“a Christmas market”).

    The Kris Kringle Mart (sometimes called Christmas Fair) is in the city square right in front of the Catholic Church.

    2005, Elaine Bonzelaar, Those First Two Years, page 291
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    and also to the December Kris Kringle Mart in Nürnberg, running from the beginning of the month right up until Christmas.

    1961, Sydney Clark, All the Best in Germany and Austria, page 77

    Throughout the country, Christmas markets — sometimes known as Kris Kringle marts— begin opening during the last week of November.

    2013, Stormie Dunn, Silenced No More, The Courage of a Soldier - Life After Military Sexual Trauma, page 100

    Synonyms: Christkindlmarkt

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of Christkindlmarkt (“a Christmas market”).

Origin

  1. GermanChristkindlmarkt
  2. EnglishKris Kringle Mart

By surface analysis, analyzable either as (1) a calque of German Christkindlmarkt or (2) a proprialization from Kris Kringle + mart.

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