Crossword clues for costume
costume
- Halloween wear
- Halloween attire
- It's a put-on
- Halloween party requirement
- All superheroes have one
- See 86D
- Party disguise
- Masquerade necessity
- Masked-ball attire
- Fancy dress
- Dick in a Box, commonly, a few Halloweens ago
- "Let's Make a Deal" wear
- Actors made to look different without hesitation for historical play
- Get-up
- Something you might go to a party in
- Halloween purchase
- The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
- Unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
- The prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
- The attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
- Ensemble
- Charge us cryptically for outfit?
- Enterprise, reorganising, must face Eastern outfit
- Bird turned up, bill on head — fancy dress?
- Dress uniform worn inside made a hole in my pocket
- Actor's clothes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Costume \Cos"tume`\ (k?s"t?m` or k?s-t?m"), n. [F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.]
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
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Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable.
--Sir J. Mackintosh. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715, "style of dress," an art term, from French costume (17c.), from Italian costume "fashion, habit," from Latin consuetudinem (nominative consuetudo) "custom, habit, usage." Essentially the same word as custom but arriving by a different etymology. From "customary clothes of the particular period in which the scene is laid," meaning broadened by 1818 to "any defined mode of dress." Costume jewelry is first attested 1933.
1823, from costume (n.). Related: Costumed; costuming.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. 2 An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc. 3 A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season. vb. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
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 of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume"
v. dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins" [syn: dress up]
furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
Wikipedia
Costume is the distinctive style of dress of an individual or group that reflects their class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch.
The term also was traditionally used to describe typical appropriate clothing for certain activities, such as riding costume, swimming costume, dance costume, and evening costume. Appropriate and acceptable costume is subject to changes in fashion and local cultural norms. This general usage has gradually been replaced by the terms "dress", "attire" or "wear" and usage of "costume" has become more limited to unusual or out-of-date clothing and to attire intended to evoke a change in identity, such as theatrical, Halloween, and mascot costumes.
Before the advent of ready-to-wear apparel, clothing was made by hand. When made for commercial sale it was made, as late as the beginning of the 20th century, by "costumiers", often women who ran businesses that met the demand for complicated or intimate female costume, including millinery and corsetry.
Costume is a Finnish language monthly women's and fashion magazine published in Helsinki, Finland. It is the Finnish version of the magazine with the same name which is also published both in Norway and in Denmark.
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.