costume
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1. costume - Noun
2. costume - Verb
Meaning
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
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.
A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.