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fancy dress
noun
- a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
fancy dress
noun
- costume worn at masquerades, etc, usually representing a particular role, historical figure, etc
- ( as modifier )
a fancy-dress ball
Word History and Origins
Origin of fancy dress1
Example Sentences
"We put between 70,000 and 80,000 people on the streets of London, but because it was a peaceful demonstration made up of kids in fancy dress we didn't get any coverage," says Packham.
“Ludwig,” created and written by Mark Brotherhood, is a six-episode cozy mystery in which each episode’s one-off cases are the fancy dress to a serialized mystery connecting the season.
Brennan, who had bought the capsule used by Williams from a fancy dress shop in Clapham, claimed never to have seen them outside of a Halloween party.
As teenage sensation Luke Littler lands yet another 180, hundreds of people in fancy dress wave signs at the camera with their own bizarre range of messages to catch the eye of the TV audience.
Turkeys, knights of old and even an oven were just some of the festive fancy dress choices by those taking part in outdoor swims on Christmas Day.
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