fancy
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If she fancied a dress in the display window at the Broadway or Bullocks, it would appear in a fancy box on her bed a few days later.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
It is a frenzied, organized dance with missed steps and dropped plates and canned tuna and mayonnaise gussied up into a fancy tonnato sauce that tastes upscale and flawless to the unsuspecting.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026
You can get fancy with your butters by making a garlic herb butter or a whipped honey butter to brush the insides and tops of your rolls.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026
Will a rested Norway team fancy their chances of making the last 16?
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
The fancy furniture and crystal lamps got left behind.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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