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/fˈænsi-drɛs bɔl/ Listen

Fancy-dress ball

noun

A ball at which guests wear costumes and masks. Synonyms: masked ball, masquerade ball.

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... we lead and prefer to lead. We are not altogether without hints and hopes of such a change, in the growing orthodoxy of rough and athletic costumes. But if this cannot be, it will be no substitute or satisfaction to turn life into an interminable historical fancy-dress ball. But the limitation of Morris's work lay deeper than this. We may best suggest it by a method after his own heart. Of all the various works he performed, none, perhaps, was so splendidly and solidly valuable as his great protest for the fables and superstitions of mankind. He has ...

— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton

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... gondola; then in her mind's eye she saw him at the court of the King of Bavaria, where duchesses listened to his playing, and fell in love with him; then in the boudoir of an opera singer; then at a fancy-dress ball in Spain, with crowds of alluring masqueraders about him. The further he seemed to soar away, unapproachable and enviable, the more miserable she felt herself to be, and all at once it seemed utterly inconceivable ...

— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler

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Words linked to "Fancy-dress ball" : mask, formal, ball, masquerade party, masque, masquerade ball, masquerade