| 单词 | fancy fair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfancy fair d. ellipt. That deals in, or is concerned with the sale of, fancy goods, as fancy fair, fancy shop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [adjective] > trading in fancy goods fancy1821 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 4 Haberdashers and others in the fancy line. 1836 Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 136 Flaming accounts of some ‘fancy fair in high life’. 1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xxv. 178 A placard..which announced that a Fancy Fair and a Fete Champetre were about to take place. 1844 J. Cowell Thirty Years among Players (1845) i. vi. 15/2 His address..was at a handsome fancy-shop in George-street. 1848 Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 441 She buys a couple of begilt Bristol boards at the Fancy Stationer's. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter 113 A chattel for which a fancy-upholsterer in London would ask a strangely large number of pounds. 1876 World 5 17 A fancy-fair is one of the diversions of a London Season. 1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. 317/2 A good Fancy Trade. 1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways i. iii. 24 She went straight into Dayson's little fancy shop. < as lemmas |
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