(~s)
1.
An actor’s or performer’s ~ is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
Even from a distance the effect of his fox ~ was stunning...
The performers, in ~ and make-up, were walking up and down backstage...
In all, she has eight ~ changes.
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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 ~.
...men and women in eighteenth-century ~...
= dress
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3.
A ~ 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 ~ drama set in Ireland and the US in the 1890s.
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