costume
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
Noun 4 meanings
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
“We wore gorilla costumes to the party.”
A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
“The bride wore a grey going-away costume.”
A swimming costume.
Verb 1 meaning
To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
Etymology
Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude, custom, and kastom. Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer.
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COSTUME at a glance
COSTUME has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + S 1 + T 1 + U 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,223 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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