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- adjective Attributive form of
fancy dress , noun.
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Examples
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While Gerard's piece was an outright review and Winer's a hybrid of news and critique, in the anachronistic kabuki of theatre journalism, both pieces were tantamount to wearing sneakers at a fancy-dress ball.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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While Gerard's piece was an outright review and Winer's a hybrid of news and critique, in the anachronistic kabuki of theatre journalism, both pieces were tantamount to wearing sneakers at a fancy-dress ball.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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Angels Fancy Dress, on Shaftesbury Avenue, is the leading UK supplier of top class fancy-dress costumes and together with the Angels website provides the largest range of party outfits and accessories in the UK.
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While Gerard's piece was an outright review and Winer's a hybrid of news and critique, in the anachronistic kabuki of theatre journalism, both pieces were tantamount to wearing sneakers at a fancy-dress ball.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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This would have limited Mr. Ding to selling formal, fancy-dress clothes.
Who Will Sell to Those 1.4 Billion Consumers? Joseph Sternberg 2011
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There, families and youngsters in fancy-dress rabbit ears gave out eggs, sung hymns, rang church bells and prayed.
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There, families and youngsters in fancy-dress rabbit ears gave out eggs, sung hymns, rang church bells and prayed.
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Wave At The BusAbout the dad who waves at his son's school bus in a different fancy-dress costume every day.
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There, families and youngsters in fancy-dress rabbit ears gave out eggs, sung hymns, rang church bells and prayed.
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Wave At The BusAbout the dad who waves at his son's school bus in a different fancy-dress costume every day.
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