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noun
1.
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially 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, especially 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.
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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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Word Origin & History
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
EXPANDattested 1933.
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