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fancy dress

noun

Definitions

  1. A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.

    • 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.

  2. Formalwear.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy, dress.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA