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    Costume party (redirect from Fancy Dress)
    costume worn by Rita Lloyd, aged nine, to the ‘Lord Mayor’s Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball’ at Mansion House in Perth on 8 January 1909. It is a tradition to...
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    Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, also known as The Misses Williams-Wynn, is a 173 by 150 cm (68 by 59 in) oil on canvas by English artist William Etty...
    23 KB (2,715 words) - 12:59, 19 November 2023
  • The Devonshire House Ball or the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball was an elaborate fancy dress ball, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, held...
    21 KB (2,032 words) - 17:49, 10 January 2024
  • "The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball" is the second episode of the second series of the 1990s British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster. It is also...
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    held an extravagant fancy-dress ball, 'The 1002nd Night', inspired by the tales of the One Thousand and One Nights, to which he dressed as a Sultan bearing...
    23 KB (2,724 words) - 08:49, 8 April 2024
  • Love", "The Terrible Little My", "Moomin's the Fortune-Teller", "The Fancy-Dress Ball", "The Vampire", "The Phoenix", "The Slug-a-Bed Mushrooms", "Moomin...
    28 KB (686 words) - 03:35, 6 April 2024
  • create a theme and handle the logistics of setting up the Fancy Dress Ball. The Fancy Dress Ball has a budget of over $80,000. Washington and Lee University...
    66 KB (6,749 words) - 09:58, 27 May 2024
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    Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich "1903 Fancy Dress Ball in the Winter Palace". The State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 16 November...
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  • in secret. Bertie is incensed but calms when he learns there is a fancy-dress ball and that his Aunt Agatha is away from Bumpleigh Hall. She does, however...
    22 KB (3,094 words) - 22:01, 16 September 2023
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    atmosphere. Often the balls have overarching themes, sometimes they are fancy dress. Ball entertainment is a closely guarded secret, not least because of the...
    19 KB (1,901 words) - 13:34, 26 May 2024
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    a soirée organised by their father. In March 1901, the Yus threw a fancy dress ball at the Chinese Embassy to celebrate Chinese New Year, at which Hsingling...
    6 KB (523 words) - 12:46, 9 November 2023
  • several suicides. The Home Office's attempt to capture them leads to a fancy dress ball at the country estate Feltham Abbey, where things come to a head when...
    2 KB (139 words) - 01:32, 25 August 2022
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    Conservative Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, titled Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball. Etty was then little-known for portraits, but had recently completed...
    133 KB (17,398 words) - 21:43, 7 April 2024
  • observe the ball and make any necessary arrests. Of the 47 men that congregated, all wore fancy dress costumes, 22 as women; a pair was dressed as Henry...
    88 KB (11,320 words) - 16:11, 17 May 2024
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    He was soon accepted by the royal social circle. In July 1949, at a fancy dress ball at the US ambassador's residence, Margaret performed the can-can on...
    143 KB (14,853 words) - 21:22, 29 May 2024
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    a soirée organised by their father. In March 1901, the Yus threw a fancy dress ball at the Chinese Embassy to celebrate Chinese New Year, at which Shuinling...
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  • brooding Laurie, that he invites the March sisters to a fancy dress ball at his sumptuous home. At the ball, Meg is courted by John Brooke, Laurie's tutor, and...
    17 KB (2,063 words) - 00:31, 18 May 2024
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    earldom of Hole. He and a party of his friends are on their way to a fancy dress ball at Hole Hall, but their vehicle breaks down, and they take refuge in...
    13 KB (1,662 words) - 06:09, 27 April 2024
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    beeches in their best dress, the elms yet pretty green, and the beautiful ashes only beginning to turn off. This is, according to my fancy, the prettiest park...
    37 KB (3,800 words) - 14:39, 12 April 2024
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    The one time she is introduced with a name is during a fancy dress ball, in which she dresses as a de Winter ancestor and is introduced as "Caroline de...
    57 KB (5,730 words) - 16:36, 10 May 2024
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