fancy-dress ball

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   a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks

   Synonymsmasked ballmasquerade ball

   Broaderballmasquerade

Questions about fancy-dress ball

What does fancy-dress ball mean?

fancy-dress ball means "a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks".

What is another word for fancy-dress ball?

Close synonyms include masked ball, masquerade ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fancy-dress ball a common word?

fancy-dress ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.