a. and sb. Also 8 fantask. [a. Fr. fantasque:—L. fanasticus.]
A. adj. Fanciful, fantastic; curious, rare.
1701. C. Burnaby, The Ladies Visiting-Day, I. i. A clean Napkin and a plain Dish is my Feast; Garnish and Ornament are fantask.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Poems, A Drama of Exile, I. 52.
| Responding with twelve shadowy signs of earth, | |
| In fantasque apposition and approach. | |
| Ibid., The House of Clouds, II. 226. | |
| Bring the fantasque cloudlets home, | |
| From the noontide zenith. |
† B. sb. Fancy, whim. Obs.
1698. Vanbrugh, Prov. Wife, III. iii. Lady Brute. … There is not upon Earth so impertinent a thing as Womens Modesty. Bel. Yes: Mens Fantasque, that obliges us to it.
1703. Steele, Tend. Husb., II. i. I have a Scribbling Army-Friend, that … will hit the Nymph’s Fantasque to a Hair.
