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单词 fancy dress
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fancy dress

uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
Fancy dress is clothing that you wear for a party at which everyone tries to look like a famous person or a person from a story, from history, or from a particular profession.
Guests were told to come in fancy dress.
He turned up at the fancy dress party as a footballer.

fancy dress in British English

noun
a. 
costume worn at masquerades, etc, usually representing a particular role, historical figure, etc
b. 
(as modifier)
a fancy-dress ball

fancy dress in American English

a masquerade costume

Examples of 'fancy dress' in a sentence
fancy dress

You meet where people wear fancy dress.
The Sun (2014)
Red in high summer can look a bit fancy dress.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But the camera and people in fancy dress drew the locals.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The wearing of fancy dress costumes and oversized hats inside the ground is prohibited.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Thousands of them turn it into a fancy dress party and come as empty seats.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But your daughter needs help making a costume for a fancy dress party.
The Sun (2015)
What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress?
The Sun (2010)
Now they come in fancy dress.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's like death in fancy dress.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
When people are in fancy dress, you have no idea of their background or job.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Was this costume English or fancy dress?
Christopher Hibbert DISRAELI: A Personal History (2004)
Fancy dress parties are parties where people come in fancy dress - ie.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Don't take your metallic eyeshadow all the way up to the brow as it will look a bit fancy dress.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It felt like fancy dress.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
One of the few other people in fancy dress was Colonel Tarleton.
Paula Byrne PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson (2004)

Word lists with
fancy dress

types of clothes, types of clothing

In other languages
fancy dress

British English: fancy dress /ˈfænsɪ drɛs/ NOUN
Fancy dress is clothing that you wear for a party at which everyone tries to look like a famous person or a person from a story, from history, or from a particular profession.
Guests were told to come in fancy dress.
  • American English: costume party
  • Arabic: مَلَابِسُ تَنَكُّرِيَّة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: fantasia
  • Chinese: 化装舞会服装
  • Croatian: kostim
  • Czech: maškarní kostým
  • Danish: udklædning
  • Dutch: kostuum
  • European Spanish: disfraz
  • Finnish: naamiaispuku
  • French: déguisement
  • German: Maskenkostüm
  • Greek: αποκριάτικη στολή
  • Italian: costume
  • Japanese: 仮装服
  • Korean: 가장 무도회 의상
  • Norwegian: karnevalskostyme
  • Polish: przebranie
  • European Portuguese: fantasia
  • Romanian: costum de bal mascat
  • Russian: маскарадный костюм
  • Latin American Spanish: traje de etiqueta
  • Swedish: maskeradkläder
  • Thai: ชุดแฟนซี
  • Turkish: balo kostümü
  • Ukrainian: маскарадний костюм
  • Vietnamese: quần áo hóa trang

Chinese translation of 'fancy dress'

fancy dress

n (u)

  1. 奇装(裝)异(異)服 (qí zhuāng yì fú)
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