Costume
['kɒstjuːm] or ['kɑstum]
Definition
(noun.) the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; 'he won the prize for best costume'.
(noun.) the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; 'he wore his national costume'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments).
(verb.) dress in a costume; 'We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins'.
(verb.) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play.
Checker: Muriel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
(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.
(n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Editor: Omar
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Style of dress.
Checked by Harlan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Uniform, livery, robes
ANT:Disguise, transformation, incognito
Editor: Peter
Definition
n. the manner of dressing prevalent at a particular period or place: dress esp. a woman's dress.—v.t. to dress.—p.adj. Costumed′.—ns. Costum′er Costum′ier one who makes or deals in costumes.
Checker: McDonald
Examples
- Young Law cross-questioned an old woman in an antique costume. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Their female costume became astonishingly modern in style; their women wore corsets and flounced dresses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You wore a costume of dove-colored silk with ostrich-feather trimming. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That is not for me, I said, hurriedly, feeling that I would almost as soon clothe myself in the costume of a Chinese lady of rank. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Male costume is nothing new to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What an appalling beau-costume he wears! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Those left were all in costume: they were the performersand this was the green-room. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here were the picturesque costumes! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We had also to range up and down through the town and look at the costumes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Bedwin, his costumes, and black man, were hailed at Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have seen some of the most grotesque costumes, along the line of the railroad, that can be imagined. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In France and Spain we attracted some attention in these costumes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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