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costume

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Word definitions for costume in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume" unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume" the prevalent fashion ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from costume (n.). Related: Costumed ; costuming .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a costume designer (= for clothes for the actors in a play ) ▪ He spent eight years as a costume designer for TV commercials. a costume drama (= about events in history, in which people wear costumes from that time ) ...

Usage examples of costume.

As in the inventories of the thirty towns I find no mention either of stockings or of shoes for Indians, with the exception of the low shoes and buckles worn by the Alferez Real, it seems the gorgeous costumes ended at the knee, and that these popinjays rode barefoot, with, perhaps, large iron Gaucho spurs fastened by strips of mare-hide round their ankles, and hanging down below their naked feet.

German hostility to the Alsatians is shown by a number of childish measures against Alsatian uniforms and costumes, in proportion as they resemble the French.

Jeremy could get into Hell and have great, dark, antiheroic adventures in a fucking Darth Vader costume.

So long as Appenzell was a land of herdsmen, many peculiarities of costume, features, and manners must have remained.

A pity Dame Cat could not talk, for this, most assuredly, was part of the costume worn by the ghost of Appleton Manor.

The Athenaeum is available freehold at a reasonable price with all properties and costumes, and a modest house nearby for you to live in.

They wore black capes and tricorn hats, and on their faces low white masks, beaked, like birds of prey: the bauta, the carnival costume of the eighteenth century.

It was only then that I saw he had purloined a Benedictine habit as his costume for the morality play.

English-speaking whites, its crew consisted largely of Malays and Lascars, while the waiters were mostly Japanese and Bengalese, wearing a costume compounded of their native gowns and the white aprons of European waiters.

Now, as he beheld the area below, he saw the Bololos bending over the piles of costumes and props, draping themselves in outsized garments and picking up various implements.

A sequined costume draped over the corner of the mirror kept appearing and disappearing at the periphery of the television screen as the cameraperson made subtle adjustments with his equipment.

Glenarvan, an experienced traveler, who knew how to adapt himself to the customs of other countries, adopted the Chilian costume for himself and his whole party.

On feast days, after strewing the streets with flowers, the confreries joined in the processions, each marching in a body in the bright colors of its own costume, preceded by its banner and statue or portrait of its patron saint.

People who should have come to Bloome to take part in festival, who should have come to buy costumes, come to buy good crystals, dead along the road!

COSTUME Colour is the hall-mark of our day, and woman decoratively COSTUMEd, and as decorator, will be largely responsible for recording this age as one of distinct importance--a transition period in decoration.