fancy dress
Example Sentences
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A masquerade without masks is merely fancy dress with an open bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
While many of us are still deciding what fancy dress to wear for Halloween, celebrities have wasted no time in posting pictures in their elaborate costumes - and the big night hasn't even arrived yet.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Paul Smith, the Liverpool world title challenger who trained alongside Hatton, remembers one fancy dress party when Hatton dressed as 'Ginger Spice' Geri Halliwell.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
She added parents faced "absolutely huge" financial pressures, and did not want to have "the only child that isn't going to prom, or hasn't got the fancy dress outfit, or the new football boots."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
I knew them well of course by now, but had never studied them with a view to reproducing one of them as a fancy dress.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
