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funfair
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funfair
Noun
Brit an amusement park with machines to ride on and stalls
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Noun1.funfairfunfair - a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement
ride - a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
common, commons, green, park - a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
theme park - an amusement park that is organized around some theme (as the world of tomorrow)
2.funfairfunfair - a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
show - the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining; "a remarkable show of skill"
midway - the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located
Translations
funfair [ˈfʌnfɛəʳ] n (BRIT) → parque m de atracciones;
(travelling) → feria
funfair [ˈfʌnfɛəʳ] n (Brit) → fête (foraine)
funfair [ˈfʌnfɛəʳ] (Brit) nJahrmarkt m


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What they stood for was what young people enjoyed (and vastly preferred to Soviet Communist propaganda): Chaplin movies, detective stories, clowns and cardsharps, pop songs, foxtrots, funfairs, fast cars, sex, free expression, and vodka.
Its innate proximity to theatrical sets, or worse yet, to the obsolete spook-houses of funfairs, however, points to one of the fundamental questions at this moment: Can complex historical meaning only be conceived in traditional representational forms, which inevitably disqualify the work as nostalgic, if not obsolete, with regard to the culture industry's demands for utter newness and the imperatives of advanced technological standards?
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