COSTUME


Meaning of COSTUME in English

(~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.

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 ~.

...men and women in eighteenth-century ~...

= dress

N-UNCOUNT: supp N

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.

ADJ: ADJ n

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