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blood-red fancies

blood-red fancies is the plural of blood-red fancy.

Meaning of blood-red fancy

Noun

blood-red fancy (plural blood-red fancies)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A red neckerchief worn at prizefights to show support for a contender.
    • Roll of snow, six snooze cases, three narps, and a blood-red fancy.1845, George William M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volumes 3-4, page 85

Questions about blood-red fancies

What is blood-red fancies the plural of?
Blood-red fancies is the plural of blood-red fancy.

Words near blood-red fancies in the dictionary

  1. blood-houses
  2. blood-letting
  3. blood-red
  4. blood-red ant
  5. blood-red ants
  6. blood-red fancies
  7. blood-red fancy
  8. blood-red slave-maker
  9. blood-red slave-makers
  10. blood-redder
  11. blood-reddest

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