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costuming

 [kos-too-ming, -tyoo-]   Origin

cos·tum·ing

   [kos-too-ming, -tyoo-]
noun
1.
material for costumes.
2.
costumes collectively.
3.
the act of furnishing or designing costumes.
Origin:
1855–60; costume + -ing1

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cos·tume

   [n. kos-toom, -tyoom; v. ko-stoom, -styoom] noun, verb, -tumed, -tum·ing, adjective
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.
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.
Origin:
1705–15; < French < Italian: usage, habit, dress; doublet of custom

Related forms
re·cos·tume, verb (used with object), -tumed, -tum·ing.
un·cos·tumed, adjective
well-cos·tumed, adjective

Synonyms
1. See dress.

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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
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attested 1933.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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