Earlier fee paid by merchants and showmen on the occasion of the (village) festival on the annual commemoration day of the consecration of the church or on the day of the saint who is the patron saint of the respective church. The fee served to maintain the peace of the church day, for the safeguarding of which (according to old documents above all: protection against drunken, rowdy and rioting young men) as a rule additional orderly guards had to be appointed. – (Salary) payment from – the treasury of the municipality or – the individual families of school-age children to the (village) teacher, due on the day of the church consecration. – Earlier also pocket money to servants and children on the day of the church consecration, so that they could enjoy the merrymaking at the fair, also called funfair money. – See funfair fee, market money, pocket money, dance concession money, vacation money, allowance, custodial.
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