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‖ bal costumé|bal kostyme|
[Fr., lit. ‘costumed ball’.]
A fancy-dress ball.
1826M. Wilmot Let. 29 Feb. (1935) 234 Our Ambassadrice had plann'd to give a ball costume early in the Carnival. 1848G. E. Jewsbury Let. 4 Oct. (1892) 256 Dandified ‘Church-of-Englandism’, which bears the same relation to ‘the Church’ that a polite assemblage of ladies and gentlemen at a ‘bal costumé’ bears to the countries after which they have dressed themselves. 1861G. du Maurier Let. [Jan.] in D. du Maurier Young G. du M. (1951) 30 On the 14th there is going to be a grand bal costumé..—150 or 200 people. 1896Beerbohm Dandies in Wks. 20 The clinquant corslet of the Swiss girl just survives at bals costumés. |