What is "fancier"

Usage examples of "fancier".

Besides, she had received a pearl necklace from the Cisalpine Republic, but of incomparably less value than that purchased from Fancier.

Across the room, old Dilworthy glowered at such comment, while Miss Ebbling, near the doorway, showed the utmost interest, since she was the chief tree fancier in Palm Park.

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

Always a fancier of panatelas, Cranston purchased a quota of the thin cigars.

Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its oesophagus,--a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.

Fanciers select their horses, dogs, and pigeons, for breeding, when they are nearly grown up: they are indifferent whether the desired qualities and structures have been acquired earlier or later in life, if the full-grown animal possesses them.

The pets fancier, who had later been successful in Eastbourne, had no recollection of Mrs Mounter, having merely corresponded with her and seen her name on the sub-lease prepared for him by a solicitor.

On another table, finished dollsdark-haired and mouthless as always, but dressed in tunics of velvet and silk fancier than any Tobin ownedsat propped in a double rank against the wall.

The high school cheerleader simply changed the color of her pompons and skirt, and learned the new and much fancier routines of the college sidelines.

I was given rooms in the New Quadrangle, fancier than my old student room in the Shrine Quadrangle, and some nice lab space in Tower Hall to set up an experimental transilience field station.

There were actually two kinds of wine: a barrel of red wine for the workers and a flask of fancier Trebbiano white wine, probably reserved for the supervisors and masters.

They took germ cells from me and started them growing, then planted them in automated life support tanks, like the stock brooders, only fancier.

These were known as lost orchids, and every orchid fancier and every ambitious commercial grower and every prideful hunter was determined to find one of them.

He said some other ghost-orchid fancier must have heard that Savilla had seedpods and had stolen them.

The hussar-style uniform had the green pants of an officer, unlike the white ones of enlisted men, with a much fancier green coatee trimmed with black, and the distinctive fur cap.