Costume

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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              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.
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     3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic
        purposes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  costume
       n 1: the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won
            the prize for best costume"
       2: 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"
       3: the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and
          hair style as well as garments)
       4: the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social
          class; "he wore his national costume"
       v 1: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as
            pumpkins" [syn: {dress up}]
       2: furnish with costumes; as for a film or play

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "costume":
     accouter, apparel, array, attire, ballet skirt, bedizenment,
     bib and tucker, blackface, buskin, cap and bells, caparison,
     clothes, clothing, clown white, disguise, drapery, dress, dressing,
     duds, equip, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fit, fit out, frock,
     garb, garments, gear, getup, greasepaint, guise, habiliment, habit,
     investiture, investment, kit, linen, livery, makeup, masquerade,
     motley, outfit, practical piece, prop, property, rags, raiment,
     rig, rig out, rig up, robes, sock, sportswear, style, suit,
     theatrical makeup, threads, tights, togs, toilette, trim, turn out,
     tutu, uniform, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel