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Webster 1913 Edition

Costume

Cos′tumeˊ

(k?s′t?mˊ or k?s-t?m′)
,
Noun.
[F.
costume
, It.
costume
custom, dress, fr. L.
consuetumen
(not found), for
consuetudo
custom. See
Custom
, and cf.
Consuetude
.]
1.
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2.
Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
I began last night to read Walter Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The
costume
, too, is admirable.
Sir J. Mackintosh.
3.
A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Webster 1828 Edition

Costume

COSTUME

,
Noun.
1.
In painting, a rule or precept by which an artist is enjoined to make every person and thing sustain its proper character, observing the scene of action, the country or place, and making the habits, arms, manners, and proportions correspond. Hence, the observance of this rule in execution.
2.
An established mode of dress.

Definition 2024

costume

costume

See also: costumé

English

A reenactor wearing a traditional Highland costume.

Noun

costume ‎(plural costumes)

  1. A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
    The dancer was wearing Highland 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.

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Verb

costume ‎(third-person singular simple present costumes, present participle costuming, simple past and past participle costumed)

  1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
      Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Italian costume.

Pronunciation

Noun

costume m ‎(plural costumes)

  1. A style of dress characteristic of a particular country, period or people
  2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress
  3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or task
  4. A suit worn by a man

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Verb

costume

  1. first-person singular present indicative of costumer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of costumer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of costumer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of costumer
  5. second-person singular imperative of costumer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōnsuētūdō, consuetudine, through a Vulgar Latin form *costumen, from a contracted form *cosuetumen.

Noun

costume m ‎(plural costumi)

  1. A custom, habit
  2. A costume
  3. A swimsuit

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Old French

Noun

costume m ‎(oblique plural costumes, nominative singular costumes, nominative plural costume)

  1. custom
    • circa 1200, author unknown, Aucassin et Nicolette
      il n'est mie costume que nos entrocions li uns l'autre.
      it is not our habit to kill each other.

Descendants

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • custume (obsolete, now eye dialect)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese costume, custume, from Vulgar Latin *cosuetumen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, singular accusative of cōnsuētūdō.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuʃ.ˈtu.mɨ/
  • Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧me

Noun

costume m (plural costumes)

  1. custom
  2. usual
  3. costume

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:costume.

Verb

costume

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of costumar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of costumar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of costumar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of costumar

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:costumar.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kos.ˈtu.me/

Noun

costume n pl

  1. plural of costum

Etymology

From French costume, from Italian costuma, from Medieval Latin costuma, ultimately, from Latin consuetudo ‎(“custom”); see custom, which is a doublet of costume.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, noun, verb) IPA(key): /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.tʃuːm/
  • (US, noun) IPA(key): /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
  • (US, verb) IPA(key): /kɑsˈt(j)uːm/, /kɑsˈtʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/

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