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.
Usage examples of "fancy store".
She didn't want me to spend money, she kept protesting, but it was too much fun taking her into one fancy store after another, buying her all the things I wanted to see on her.
And maybe it is, retail, some big fancy store, Dallas or somewhere.
Her youngest son got her a set of fancy store-bought teeth all the way from the big city, and very handsome she looks in ‘.
Another night Bill might wear an Elvis towel for his cape or for an occasion like the Bar Tab show at Birraporetti's he might put on his fancy store-bought Elvis costume, a clingy white jumpsuit with a sparkling cummerbund.
His blue suit came not from Wal-Mart, like those of myself and the other managers, but from some fancy store all the way over in Lincoln, Nebraska.
After that we'd ramble around the First District and look at the fancy store windows.
Everybody spoke English down here, and they all dressed like the dummies in those fancy store windows.