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▪ I. fancy dress, n.
1. A costume arranged according to the wearer's fancy, usually representing some fictitious or historical character. Also attrib. in fancy dress ball. Also fig.
1770F. Burney Early Diary 10 Jan., I was soon found out by Miss Lalause, who..had on a fancy dress..much in the style of mine. 1808Monthly Pantheon I. 76 Bending branches press In many folds blithe nature's fancy dress. a1831Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) I. 225 The fancy-dresses were worn almost exclusively by the young ladies. 1844G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. 51 Such variety of costume..would put to the blush..any..fancy-dress procession ever invented. 1882Let. 8 Aug. in A. Nathan Costumes by Nathan (1960) iv. 60 They would be required for a Fancy Dress Ball the week of the 4th September. 1915A. D. Gillespie Let. 8 June (1916) 187 A fancy dress dance given there by the Germans on Christmas Eve. 1919D. Ashford Young Visiters vi. 52 Is it a fancy dress party he asked. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment ii. 26 London..was grotesque with a kind of fancy-dress ball of non-combatant khaki. 1938L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry 39, I realize that this piece [sc. The Lady of Shalott], though dressy, is fancy-dress at its best.
2. A dress with ornamental trimming.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. i, His curly locks, and his fancy dress.
▪ II. fancy dress, v. rare—1.
trans. To array or clothe in a fancy dress.
1878Masque Poets 226 Nothing can exceed a woman's tact in fancy-dressing both herself and fact.
Hence fancy dressed ppl. a., fancy dressing vbl. n.
1837Dickens Pickw. xv, Never was such ingenious posturing, as his fancy-dressed friends exhibited. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lii, Pitt Crawley..reprobated in strong terms the habit of play acting and fancy dressing. |