The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fancy \Fan"cy\, a.
Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes.
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Extravagant; above real value.
This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.
--Macaulay.Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations.
Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.
Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make.
Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down.
Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer.
Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial.
Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold.
Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (context retail English) decorative luxury items.
WordNet
n. goods that are chiefly ornamental
Usage examples of "fancy goods".
Ones got to buy something, and since I couldnt bring anything I bought back through the net with me, it had to be something I could slip onto the fancy goods table without being caught, and penwipers are small.
Isabel was presiding over the Billiken, Teddy- bear, and Fancy Goods stall.
A few shiploads of fancy goods, owned by the Authority and priced high because it's importado.
A few shiploads of fancy goods, owned by the Authority and priced high because it’.