0 a sudden (often unexpected) liking or desire -- grille; indfald
1 the power of the mind to imagine things -- fantasi; indbildning
2 something imagined. -- forestilling; indbildning
3 decorated; not plain -- dekoreret; kunstfærdig
fancy cakes.
4 to like the idea of having or doing something -- kunne tænke sig; have lyst til
5 to think or have a certain feeling or impression (that) -- forestille sig
For him, the landscape was not a fancy to be admired and 'observed'.
Such analyses were dangerously susceptible of countenancing individual fancy, undermining a national church.
Rethinking a classic doesn't mean gussying it up with fancy folderol and extraneous trimming so that it no longer bears any resemblance to the original.
We may fancy an exotic past that contrasts with a humdrum or unhappy present, but we forge it with modern tools.
The old woman would not listen to such fancy stuff.
Muddling through this century, however, we find that the 'conservation ethic' has often been eclipsed by a predilection for fancy 'conservation tools'.
The films were superficial and huge sums of money were spent on fancy mechanisms, like animatronics.
Imaginative fancy or indirect knowledge was rarely enough.
