Crossword clues for costume drama
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context film or television English) A period piece featuring elaborate costumes which capture the atmosphere of the portrayed era.
Usage examples of "costume drama".
Stars, producers, director, supporting players, extras, scenery and locations, set designers, cinematographers, special effects, composer, costumers, it's a costume drama isn't it?
We strode around town uncomfortably garbed in early nineteenth-century clothing, feeling like refugees from a costume drama, and Sid showed us the sights in fine fashion.
Alice taking my arm feels no less self-conscious, as if it's something she picked up from a TV costume drama, but it's nice too, and I feel warmer and a good two inches taller.
It was all busy and gaudy beyond words, like a fifties Hollywood Technicolor costume drama, and about as truthful.
It all seemed so silly, and she felt like an actress dressed for some historical costume drama.
I was eight or thereabouts and resigned myself to sitting through some costume drama I imagined would bore me senseless.
Her maidservants had taken over an hour to install her in this outfit: I feel like I've fallen into a medieval costume drama, she thought.
One by one, they disappeared into a tunnel barely big enough to lie down in, carrying empty baskets, then returned a few minutes later with baskets full of dirt, looking like extras in some new Hollywood costume drama: The Ten Commandments Meets the Great Escape.