COSTUME

Costume

The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

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costume

Noun

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
    ''The dancer was wearing Highland costume.
  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
    ''We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
    ''The bride wore a grey going-away costume.

Verb

  1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.


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