English Dictionary

fancy dress

名詞

オーストラリア英語 イギリス英語 不可算名詞 通常

(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else. / (uncountable) Formalwear.

日本語の意味

仮装用衣装（ハロウィンや仮装パーティーなどで着用する衣装） / 正装、またはフォーマルな服装（公式な場で着用する衣服）

She bought a bright pink fancy dress to wear to the village carnival.

彼女は村のカーニバルに着ていくために、明るいピンクの仮装を買った。

意味（1）

(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.

Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Formalwear.

And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.

fancy dresses （ plural ）