LekhoriLekhoriThe imagination.
[…] But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds […]
An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on?
An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker […]
Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones.
This is a fancy shawl.
In a fancy manner; fancily.
I igonored it, hurdling her navel, riding her torso and taking both her breasts in my hands and mashing them none too fancy.
To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
I fancy your new car, but I like my old one just fine.
From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”),...
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Executed with skill.
He initiated the game-winning play with a fancy deked saucer pass to the winger.