Meaning : Imagination or fantasy. Held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination.
Example :
Never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence.
Meaning : A predisposition to like something.
Example :
He had a fondness for whiskey.
She had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less.
Synonyms : fondness, partiality
Meaning : Not plain. Decorative or ornamented.
Example :
Fancy handwriting.
Fancy clothes.
Not elaborate or elaborated. Simple.
Plain food.