costume
IPA: kɑstˈum
noun
- A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
- An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
- A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
verb
- To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
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Examples of "costume" in Sentences
- It is a costume to wear a epaulet.
- Her halloween costume is spectral.
- Greek people wore toga as their costume.
- She has a seraphic costume for Halloween.
- The costumes of the dancers are very colorful.
- The street is crowding with people in costumes.
- Technically it is the name of the falcon costume.
- The costumes and the scenery are entirely authentic.
- The costume and the background of the play are inharmonious.
- The dirty white of his costume is the token of his inferiority.
- And I agree with LucaStefan, the Robin costume is perfect for that.
- I don't get why her costume is any worse than the painted on costume Hal Jordan wears.
- But it still took two shocks for DC Comics to rethink the Robin costume from the bottom up.
- She did what she called a costume test, but it wasreally sort of introducing us to our world.
- Our tradition of collecting candy in costume is mere child's play to Roman Catholic countries.
- Naturally I love this, your costume is the most impressive one but I also adore the rabbit and the mad hatter.
- Rather than wearing it for symbolic purposes or to hide his identity, the costume is his power and also his life support machine.
- And yes, that means that I only have 11 days to be struck by creative brilliance, because I still don't have a costume and last time I checked, the invitation to the * costume party* did indicate that it would be preferable to wear a * costume*.
- The other three members of Os Trapalhões take on the roles of the Oz-bound characters: Zacarias as the Scarecrow (with long straw blonde hair and heavy make-up, strangely resembling Sylvia Miles), Mussum as the Tin Man (his costume is an industrial tin drum) and Dede Santana as the Lion (his costume is a brown afro and a furry vest with a tail hanging from its backside).