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costume

noun
/ˈkɒs.tjuːm/UK/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/US

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.

  1. borrowed from costumer
  2. derived from consuetudo — “custom, habit”
  3. derived from costume
  4. borrowed from costume

Definitions

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as…

    A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.

    • the sight of thousands of people gathered to watch men walk the streets openly in female costume
    • The apology came after a netizen claimed Soberano was supposedly doing a black face, but the latter said, in defense, it was just a “costume.”

  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.

    • We wore gorilla costumes to the party.

  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

    • The bride wore a grey going-away costume.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A swimming costume.

      • They call their bathing suits down there "costumes."

    2. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

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Derived

academic costume, bathing costume, cossie, costumal, costume change, costume drama, costume jewellery, costume jewelry, costumeless, costume party, costumer, costumier, costumery, costumey, costumic, costumist, domino costume, my culture is not your costume, national costume, swimming costume

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at costume. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at costume. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at costume

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA