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"fancy" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often swanky (6 letters).
Definitions
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Word origin
From Middle English fancien, fantasien, fantesien, from Old French fantasier, from the noun (see above)).
Used in a sentence
“[…] But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds […]”
“In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove; / In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
“Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Imaginative or elegant”5 letters
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