Meaning of fancy dress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.
   Australia, UK, uncountable, usually
2. Formalwear.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.”

“Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.”

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