fancy fair

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名詞

歴史的

(historical) A fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.

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The church organized a fancy fair where volunteers sold handmade ornaments and trinkets to raise funds for the orphanage.

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意味（1）

(historical) A fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.

A fancy fair is a new kind of charity, my lord; or, strictly speaking, a new mode of dispensing it, by employing the wits and fingers of our wives and daughters in making all sorts of fidfads, which turns your house into a Babel, sends your servants to Ackermann's, or the haberdasher's, ten times a day for coloured paper and pasteboard, fancy edgings and colour-boxes, ribbon and velvet, silver edging, beads and braid, card-racks and hand-screens, dolls' heads and purse-clasps—in short, things without end, as I know to my sorrow.

詳細

fancy fairs （ plural ）