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Fancy dress

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

    "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."

  2. 2
    a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party wordnet
  3. 3
    Formalwear. uncountable, usually

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