Thesaurus: costume

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1. n. Dress in class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/general">general; esp., the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/distinctive">distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2. 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.
3. n. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
4. n. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
5. n. unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
6. n. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
7. n. the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/attire">attire class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/characteristic">characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
8. v. dress in a costume
9. v. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
10. 1. Dress in class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/general">general; esp., the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/distinctive">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.
11. v:4/n:96 n. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball n. unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place n. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) n. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class