In contrast, mixtures with Blacks, both by Indians and Spaniards, led to a bewildering number of combinations, with "fanciful terms" to describe them.

Or else, rather than put the story in such pagan as well as fanciful terms, he imagined it was impossible (if a Romance must also convey a moral lesson) that Heaven would not punish that vessel of perfidies.

Anna and I tried to outdo each other naming the colors in the fanciful terms of today's sports clothes catalogues.

Expedition is a fanciful term for what was actually a comfortable ride in one of Siem Reap's numerous private taxis.

In the second act there is a sequence that stretches credibility - even on the author's fanciful terms.

The title song has Stephen Fry declaiming fifty different terms, many fanciful, as Bush creates a soundscape around him.

A fanciful, arbitrary, or suggestive term can be inherently distinctive and registrable without proof of acquired distinctiveness.

How else could I have gained the needful direct experience and skill, amounting in fanciful terms to a sixth sense, except by experimenting on myself?

"Lighthousekeeping" is Winterson's fanciful term for storytelling, which itself comes to seem identical with affirming life and love.