clothing; outfit; dress of a distinctive style or period, style of dress; woman's outfit
characterized by the wearing of costumes
dress in a costume; provide a costume; wear a costume
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Costume Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
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.
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.
(n.)
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
(n.)
A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
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.]
1. dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2. 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 minstreli was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some partsthe costume, too, is admirable. mackintosh.
3. a character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Noun
1. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
(hyponym) fancy dress, masquerade, masquerade costume
2. 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"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
3. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
4. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
(hyponym) academic costume
(derivation) dress up
Verb
1. dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
(synonym) dress up
(hypernym) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
(verb-group) dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
2. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) costumier, costumer, costume designer
(classification) performing arts
Costume Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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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