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 Translation for 'fancy-dress ball' from English to Czech
NOUN   a fancy-dress ball | fancy-dress balls
SYNO fancy-dress ball | masked ball | masquerade ball
fancy-dress ball {noun}maškarní bál {m}
to dress {verb}obléct se [dok.]
to dress oneself {verb}obléci se [dok.]
dress {sg}šaty {m.pl}
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to dress oneself {verb}obléknout se [dok.]
ball {noun}míč {m}
sport
ball {noun}
balón {m}
sport
golf ball {noun}
golfový míček {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • In February 1801 at Malta, Cochrane got into an argument with a French Royalist officer at a fancy dress ball.
  • Events included a "fancy dress ball" on the evening of Friday, 6 September.
  • Since it was written during the filming of the final series of episodes, Snoad included the co-authors of the guide as extras in the episode "The Fancy Dress Ball".
  • On February 6, 1829, his wife gave a fancy dress ball at their home, 1 Greenwich Street in New York.
  • Predicting his own future, Johnny went as a footballer to a Gilgandra children's fancy-dress ball and won a prize.

  • They escape his clutches but Prince Ludwig infiltrates the palace during a fancy dress ball.
  • Much of the plot was adapted to form the first two episodes of the second series of the ITV series "Jeeves and Wooster", "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer" and "The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball", which first aired on 14 April and 21 April 1991.
  • Madigan takes Julia to a fancy dress ball for the department, which includes getting to stay at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel.
  • It was a child's 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.
  • Wyllie sponsored a fancy dress ball in 1860. Even the Catholic bishop came, dressed as a bishop.

  • In November 1889 he organised an exhibition of "Japanese art" by Hokusai (but actually by Edward Arthur Walton) and this coincided with the Glasgow Art School's Fancy Dress Ball at which Walton appeared dressed as Hokusai and revealed his identity and also announced his engagement to Helen Law.
  • There he produced illustrations of social events such as the Boat Race, Goodwood and even the annual fancy dress ball at Brookwood Asylum, as well as acting as a special correspondent reporting on aspects of life in contemporary England, such as the scandalous divorce trial of Lady Colin Campbell.
  • This, however, would be more accurately labelled a "talent show" rather than the "fancy dress ball" that the term suggests (although British fandom sometimes uses the term "fancy dress").
  • He senses an uneasy atmosphere, and is on his guard when Guy Stallard, an American millionaire, invites him and the houseboat party to a fancy dress ball at a large house he has rented nearby.
  • A wealthy man dresses up as Napoleon for a fancy dress ball, but is instead detained in a lunatic asylum where they suspect him of having delusions of grandeur.

  • In 1889 Walton appeared at the Glasgow Art Club Fancy Dress Ball as Hokusai which coincided with an exhibition of Hokusai's (Walton's) Japanese prints at the gallery of Alexander Reid at 124 St Vincent Street.
  • In August 1844 a fancy dress ball was given by the mayor of Sydney, the first of its kind in Australia.
  • Photographers Maull & Fox took his portrait in costume as a Persian prince for the Duchess of Devonshire's 1897 fancy-dress ball.
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