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fancy
1. (of a domestic animal) bred for particular qualities
2. Lit the power to conceive and represent decorative and novel imagery, esp in poetry. Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
3. Music a composition for solo lute, keyboard, etc., current during the 16th and 17th centuries


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Musicality in dance can be summed up in two words: "rubato," easy to explain, and "tone," which can't really be described in words, however fancily you try to put it.
What I was witnessing was workplace democracy in action, or, more fancily put, what French sociologists call autogestion or workers' self-determination.
The ACTU will soon commence a case before the AIRC that seeks modest changes to existing award entitlements designed to expand the options for employees with fancily responsibilities.
 
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