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Definition of Fancy dress
1. Noun. A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party.
Generic synonyms: Costume, Disguise
Terms within: Domino, False Face
Derivative terms: Masquerade
Definition of Fancy dress
1. Noun. (U.K.) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else. ¹
2. Noun. Formalwear. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fancy Dress
Literary usage of Fancy dress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1885)
"FLOWERS IN fancy dress. I REMEMBER as well as though it were yesterday how, years
and years ago, when I was a very little girl, I very often roamed through ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... time- slaying device in Vienna, and the great beauties frequently call in the
camera to perpetuate the triumphs of their splendor in fancy-dress. ..."
3. Society As I Have Found It by Ward MacAllister (1890)
"New Era in New York Society — Extravagance of Living — Grand fancy dress Ball in
Fifth Avenue — / go as the Lover of Margaret de Valois — A Great Journalist ..."
4. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"Weldon's fancy dress for Children. pp. 110. Land. 1888. 8°. 7742. b. 8. fancy dress.
fancy dress: a short chronological series of costumes. Land. 1898. 8*. ..."
5. My Recollections (1909)
"CHAPTER IV PRESENTED AT COURT I am presented at Court : A fancy dress ball at
Buckingham Palace : Death of my mother : The fortune-teller's prediction ..."
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