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dressing up a thing until it forgets it was ever ordinary.
means Elaborate, decorative, or high-quality in a way that goes beyond the plain or basic — or, as a verb, to like, want, or imagine something.
from A worn-down version of "fantasy," which came through Old French from Latin phantasia and ultimately Greek phantasia, "a making visible, an appearance," from phainein, "to show." Over centuries English clipped the longer word down to "fancy," and the meaning drifted: from the imagination itself, to the things imagination delights in, to anything decorative enough to look imagined rather than merely made. So the same root that gives us "phantom" also gives us fancy dress — both, in their way, are pictures the mind dresses up.
- old roots
- Shortened from fantasy, once meaning imagination itself.
- verb side
- To fancy means both to like and to imagine.
- pigeon breed
- Fancy pigeons are bred purely for looks, not racing.
- british slang
- Fancying someone means crushing on them.
- price tag
- Fancy often just means expensive with a costume on.
the met gala — annual fundraising benefit for the metropolitan museum of art's costume institute, attended by celebrities and designers since 1948
wimbledon championships — tennis tournament since 1877 requiring all-white dress code, strawberries and cream, and royal attendance
belle epoque paris — late 1800s paris known for opulent balls, champagne, and high society at venues like the moulin rouge