'Fancy store' definitions:

Definition of 'Fancy store'

From: GCIDE
  • Fancy \Fan"cy\, a.
  • 1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Extravagant; above real value. [1913 Webster]
  • This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations.
  • Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.
  • Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make.
  • Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down.
  • Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer.
  • Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial.
  • Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold.
  • Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc. [1913 Webster]