What does "fantasy" mean?
Fantasy: Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.
Additional senses
- 2.To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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