"fancy dress" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71",
          "text": "Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.",
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        "A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
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          "costume",
          "costume"
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          "disguise",
          "disguise"
        ],
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          "masquerade",
          "masquerade"
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        "(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "maskaraden kostjum",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "маскараден костюм"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "maškarní kostým"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "word": "naamiaisasu"
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        {
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          "code": "de",
          "english": "carnival costume",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Karnevalskostüm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "lb",
          "english": "carnival costume",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Fueskostüm"
        }
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          "ref": "1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves",
          "text": "And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Formalwear."
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        "(uncountable) Formalwear."
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        }
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        "(uncountable) Formalwear."
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "maskaraden kostjum",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "маскараден костюм"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maškarní kostým"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "word": "naamiaisasu"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "english": "carnival costume",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Karnevalskostüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "english": "carnival costume",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Fueskostüm"
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