Fancy Dress

Definition: Fancy Dress

Fancy Dress

Noun

1. A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Fancy Dress

Ostentation

Dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.

Crosswords: Fancy Dress

This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball. (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

I don't like it at all, sir. Fancy dress, I take it? (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges)

Fancy Dress (1919)

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Books

• Fancy Dress for Girls and Boys (reference)

• Fancy Dress Party Counting Book (reference)

• Lets Dress Up Fancy Dress Masks Badges (reference)

• Murder in Fancy Dress (reference)

• My Fancy Dress Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

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U.S.S. Maine, a fancy dress ball. Credit: Library of Congress.

Darktown sociables, a "fancy dress" hoodoo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "fancy dress": fancy dress ball ♦ put into fancy dress ♦ wearing fancy dress. Additional references.

Albanian

veshje tebdil, kostum maskarade. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملابس غريبة, ‏ملابس تنكرية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

костюмиран, костюм за маскарад. (various references)

Czech

maškarní kostým. (various references)

Danish

karnevaldragt. (various references)

Dutch

kleding voor gekostumeerde bals. (various references)

Finnish

naamiaispuku. (various references)

French

travesti, traversier (fast), costume déguisé. (various references)

German

verkleidung (boarding, casing, covering, disguise, disguising, dressing up, facing, lining, panel, paneling, revetment, sheeting), Maskenkoestuem. (various references)

Greek 

ένδυμα μεταμφιέσεως. (various references)

Hebrew 

תחפושת (disguise, dressing up). (various references)

Hungarian

jelmez (costume, fancy-dress). (various references)

Italian

costume (costume, custom, habit, outfit, suit, usage, use, way, wont), abito da travestimento. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom), 仮装 (converted, disguise, masquerade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファンシードレス , かそう (appearance, construction of a house, converted, cremation, disguise, imagination, lower strata, masquerade, phenomenon, potential, supposition, temporary burial). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancyfay essdray

Portuguese

fato de máscara, dissimulação (camouflage, concealment, disguise, disguising, masquerade, obliquity, palliation, slyness, veiling), disfarce (camouflage, cloak, cloaking, coloring, colouring, concealment, cover, disguise, disguising, dissimulation, mask, masquerade, veil, veiling, window dressing). (various references)

Romanian

costum de bal mascat (Masquerade). (various references)

Russian 

маскарадный костюм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

elegantna odeća. (various references)

Spanish

disfraz (costume, disguise, mask). (various references)

Swedish

maskeraddräkt (fancy-dress, Masquerade). (various references)

Turkish

maskeli balo kıyafeti, karnaval kıyafeti, kıyafet balosu elbisesi. (various references)

Misspellings

"Fancy Dress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fancydress. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: ancress, ardency, ascends, carneys, caserns, dancers, defrays, dryness, farness, sanders, scarfed.

-4 letters: ascend, cadres, caners, caress, carney, carses, casefy, casern, cedarn, cedars, craned, cranes, crases, creasy, cyders, dancer, dances, decafs, decays, defray, denars, denary, derays, descry, dressy, escars, facers, faders, farced, farces, fasces, francs, frayed, nacred, nacres, rances, redans, resays, sacred, sander.