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Meanings of fancy-dress ball in English

Portuguese
baile de máscaras
Catalan
ball de disfresses
Wikidata

A ball at which guests wear costumes and masks.

        baile de máscaras
        Synonyms
        Examples for "masked ball"
        Examples for "masked ball"
        1
        By pitying him the other night, the night of the masked ball.
        The Phantom of the Opera
        2
        He was at the masked ball last night and was very nice.
        Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
        3
        We were last night at the masked ball in the Hay-market.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
        4
        Go to the masked ball at the Opera on the night after to-morrow.
        The Phantom of the Opera
        5
        And then you saw Red Death stalking about at the last masked ball.
        The Phantom of the Opera
        1
        Do you not know what a masquerade ball means to a woman?
        A conspiracy of paper: a novel
        2
        Like attending the masquerade ball in Poe's story about the Red Death.
        The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
        3
        The Trend: Embrace New Orleans culture with these masquerade ball-inspired nails.
        Ebony
        4
        Others spoke of the possibility of a masquerade ball just for study participants.
        Reuters
        5
        A masquerade ball in a strange city hardly represented Elaine's idea of enjoyment.
        The Unbearable Bassington
        Usage of fancy-dress ball in English
        1
        No other person going to the Caledonian fancy-dress ball was so attended.
        Macleod of Dare
        2
        On the Saturday evening following, the fancy-dress ball was to occur.
        Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
        3
        Then again I may wear it to a fancy-dress ball sometime.
        Europe Revised
        4
        She turned the simplest gathering to a fancy-dress ball, he decided.
        Mrs. Dud's Sister
        5
        It was to be a fancy-dress ball, and all were to wear masks.
        The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
        6
        Myra, let's go to a fancy-dress ball when we get back.
        The Sunny Side
        7
        He would create a great sensation in a fancy-dress ball.
        The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
        8
        Why, that our party shall be a masked, fancy-dress ball.
        Cruel As The Grave
        9
        I have an idea that it would be stunning for my next fancy-dress ball!'
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        10
        On the day after the review a fancy-dress ball was to be given at Court.
        Vivian Grey
        11
        Their route took them back under the balustrades where the fancy-dress ball was in progress.
        Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
        12
        How did he make out at the fancy-dress ball?
        Right Ho, Jeeves
        13
        She desired that the affair should be quite perfect; it was to be a fancy-dress ball.
        A Love Episode
        14
        Or a fancy-dress ball, with supper at midnight and a champagne breakfast served just after dawn?
        The blackstone chronicles
        15
        Minus any fancy-dress ball or maids running around.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        16
        Then we were accosted by two ladies of a committee that had the fancy-dress ball in hand.
        Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
        Translations for fancy-dress ball