fancy dress
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"We've noticed they want to come in fancy dress now, they want to become characters themselves."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Chaplins has been a staple in the city centre for 35 years, back when people wore fancy dress on New Year's Eve.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
A masquerade without masks is merely fancy dress with an open bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
New Year's Day is traditionally the day when brave swimmers don their fancy dress for the Loony Dook - a hangover-clearing dip in the bracing waters of the Firth of Forth.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Here and there, military men in fancy dress uniforms are looking up at the distant flashes of fireworks in the sky.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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