Costume

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  • noun. A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people.
  • noun. An outfit or a disguise worn on Mardi Gras, Halloween, or similar occasions.
  • noun. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
  • transitive verb. To put a costume on; dress.
  • transitive verb. To design or furnish costumes for.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete form of custom.
  • noun. Custom or usage with respect to place and time, as represented in art or literature; distinctive character or habit in action, appearance, dress, etc.; hence, keeping or congruity in representation.
  • noun. Mode of dressing; external dress.
  • To dress; furnish with a costume; provide appropriate dress for: as, to costume a play; “costumed in black,”
  • Reflexively, to put an unusual dress on; dress for a special occasion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
  • noun. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
  • noun. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
  • verb. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
  • verb. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
  • verb. dress in a costume
  • noun. unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
  • noun. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
  • noun. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
  • Word Usage
    "And yes, that means that I only have 11 days to be struck by creative brilliance, because I still don't have a costume and last time I checked, the invitation to the * costume party* did indicate that it would be preferable to wear a * costume*."
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    uniform  
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    apparel  attire  clothe  dress  enclothe  
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    Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  
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