fancy dress

Example Sentences

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Wrestlers donned fancy dress and grappled in a gravy-filled pool for the 15th annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships.

From BBC

I was shocking in the pop realm because I was one of the first people who turned up and said, “This isn’t fancy dress — this is who I am.”

From Los Angeles Times

"I get the big, fancy dress. He gets the fancy skydive".

From BBC

The 43rd Oxenhope Straw Race saw competitors, many of whom were in fancy dress, carry the straw through the West Yorkshire village and stopping off along the way for a pint or two.

From BBC

But here, in every direction, Derby-goers in fancy dresses and seersucker suits posed for selfies, fluffed the feathers in their hats and sipped mint juleps.

From Seattle Times