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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: costume adj : characterized by the use of period costume or fancy dress; "a costume movie"; "a costume ball" 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 2: furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
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