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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...
    14 KB (1,709 words) - 14:59, 18 November 2024
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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 (2,064 words) - 23:09, 19 November 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...
    24 KB (2,763 words) - 13:44, 31 October 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
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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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    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...
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  • 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 (6,802 words) - 17:51, 10 November 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...
    56 KB (5,726 words) - 11:32, 17 November 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...
    7 KB (641 words) - 01:52, 8 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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    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 (1,955 words) - 03:02, 7 November 2024
  • 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 (3,093 words) - 01:36, 28 September 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...
    146 KB (14,868 words) - 12:37, 19 November 2024
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    friendships with both. In July 1897, the Duchess hosted the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House, the London residence of the Dukes of Devonshire...
    14 KB (1,189 words) - 08:35, 19 November 2024
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    gave a ball for the "Four Hundred" invited guests at their residence, which was considered, with the exception of the Vanderbilt "fancy dress ball of 1883...
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    Hunt, to create the French Renaissance-style chateau. Her renowned fancy-dress ball, held here in March 1883 and attended by a thousand people, captured...
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  • into organising events. In March 1950, she created an opera-inspired fancy dress ball in aid of Britten's English Opera Group, featuring Frederick Ashton...
    10 KB (905 words) - 12:07, 24 July 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...
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