Brewer's: Fancy Man

(A). A cavalier servant or cicisbeo; one selected by a married lady to escort her to theatres, etc., to ride about with her, and to amuse her. The man she “fancies” or likes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Fancy-sick
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