fancy dress

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Stern guides have been replaced by volunteers offering fancy-dress outfits or cooking lessons to children.
志願者爲(wèi)孩子提供化妝舞會的服裝或是烹飪課借以取代嚴(yán)格的指導(dǎo)課程。
She was too excited to do any housework that morning, for in the evening she would be going to a fancy-dress party with her husband.
那天上午，她興奮得什麼家務(wù)活都不想做，因爲(wèi)晚上她要同丈夫一起蓡加一個化裝舞會。
Guests at a fancy-dress party are familiar with the phenomenon: the one who dresses up as Casanova develops a talent in charming the attendees that is otherwise unknown in him.
在化妝舞會上的人可能很熟悉這樣一個場景：打扮成卡薩諾瓦(風(fēng)流男子的代表)的人能夠表現(xiàn)出吸引來賓的魅力，有可能連他本人都不知道自己有這種能力。

At a black-tie event, the men dress in tuxedos or dark suits and the women wear fancy dresses.

The country is not returning to 1977 and its home-made fancy-dress costumes or Coronation bunting dug out of attics.
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the special clothes that you wear for a party where everyone dresses as a particular type of character or thing

Fancy dress is clothing that you wear for a party at which everyone tries to look like a famous person or a person from a story, from history, or from a particular profession.