1 [C,U] the clothes worn by people from a particular place or during a particular historical period:
Some of the singers wore the Welsh national costume.
2 [C,U] the clothes worn by actors in a play or film/movie, or worn by sb to make them look like sth else:
The actors were still in costume and make-up. * She has four costume changes during the play. * He went to the party in a giant chicken costume. * a costume designer
3 [C] (BrE, informal) = SWIMMINGCOSTUME:
If you'd like a swim, we can lend you a costume.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for costume is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is costume a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, costume is tagged as noun.
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