fancy dress
noun/ˌfænsi ˈdres/
/ˌfænsi ˈdres/
[uncountable] (British English)- clothes that you wear, especially at parties, to make you appear to be a different character
- guests in fancy dress
- I went to a fancy-dress party as a pirate.
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionb2, Religion and festivalsb2- Many of the marathon runners compete in fancy dress.
- Several of the managers donned fancy dress for the office party.
- The streets were full of people in fancy dress.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fancy dress- don
- wear
- ball
- party
- costume
- …
- in fancy dress
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