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cos⋅tume
[n. kos-toom, -tyoom; v. ko-stoom, -styoom] 
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noun, verb, -tumed, -tum⋅ing, adjective –noun
| 1. | a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, esp. that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period. |
| 2. | dress or garb characteristic of another period, place, person, etc., as worn on the stage or at balls. |
| 3. | fashion of dress appropriate to a particular occasion or season: dancing costume; winter costume. |
| 4. | a set of garments, esp. women's garments, selected for wear at a single time; outfit; ensemble. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to dress; furnish with a costume; provide appropriate dress for: to costume a play. |
–adjective
| 6. | of or characterized by the wearing of costumes: a costume party. |
| 7. | meant for use with or appropriate to a specific costume: costume accessories. |
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| cos·tume (kŏs'tōōm', -tyōōm') n.
[French, from Italian, style, dress, from Latin cōnsuētūdō, custom; see custom.] |
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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 Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. --Sir J. Mackintosh. 3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Costume
Spanish:
traje,
German:
das Kostüm,
Japanese:
～着
costume
1715, art term, from Fr., from It., from L. consuetudo "custom," and essentially the same word as custom but arriving by a different etymology. From "customary clothes of the particular period in which the scene is laid," meaning broadened by 1818 to "any defined mode of dress." Costume jewelry is first attested 1933.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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