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( costumes)
1.
An actor’s or performer’s costume is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
Even from a distance the effect of his fox costume was stunning...
The performers, in costume and make-up, were walking up and down backstage...
In all, she has eight costume changes.
N-VAR
2.
The clothes worn by people at a particular time in history, or in a particular country, are referred to as a particular type of costume .
...men and women in eighteenth-century costume...
= dress
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3.
A costume play or drama is one which is set in the past and in which the actors wear the type of clothes that were worn in that period.
...a lavish costume drama set in Ireland and the US in the 1890s.
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