Word Finder - costume

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

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The dancer was wearing Highland costume.

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An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.

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We wore gorilla costumes to the party.

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

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The bride wore a grey going-away costume.

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To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

Maybe you should take off that wolf costume and show him how it's done.

That's because your usual costume isn't a costume at all.

Sonya's costume was the best of all.

But Dolokhov, who in Moscow had worn a Persian costume, had now the appearance of a most correct officer of the Guards.

All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.

The Vallee Noire, so it seemed to me, was part and parcel of myself, the framework in which my life was set, the native costume that I had always worn - what worlds away from the silks and satins that are suited for the public stage.

The greater part of its body is covered by a pattern of acanthus leaves, but on the shoulder is a frieze showing nomads breaking in wild mares, our chief authority for Scythian costume.

An account of the order is given in Count Luigi Cibrario's Ordini Cavallereschi (Turin, 1846) with coloured plates of the costume and badges.

The costume of the women has undergone considerable change in the last century.

You will complete the game and unlock another costume.

We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands.

With the aid of the right costume and plenty of over-the-top makeup, a person can make a strong impression on the big day.

These are good places to buy costume jewelry in lots.

Estate sales are great places to find vintage costume jewelry.

The Guardian's muffled voice grew louder as he pulled the head off the costume.

They brought with them iron, which they used for their long swords and for their cutting implements; the costume of both sexes was distinct from that of the Pelasgians; they used round shields with a central boss instead of the 8-shaped or rectangular shields of the latter; they fastened their garments with brooches, and burned their dead instead of burying them as did the Pelasgians.

Men who have otherwise adopted European costume retain the tarbush.

The monument was an open-air altar, a terrace with portico, dated about zoo B.C. Many votive terra-cotta statuettes were obtained, the commonest being the figure of a sheep dressed as a woman, erect with a basket on its head, no doubt a ceremonial costume of worshippers.

It may be also regarded as 'part of the boundary line between north and south Germany, for dialect, customs, local names and costume are different on the two sides.

Though considerable individual differences of type may be found in every village, the Berbers are distinctively a " white " race, and the majority would, if clad in European costume, pass unchallenged as Europeans.

In Assam silk is still the national dress, and forms the common costume of the women, but the men are relinquishing it as an article of daily wear in favour of cotton.

Together with costume it is necessary to study the methods of wearing the hair, for each race adopts a different method.

It is to be hoped that steps will shortly be taken to arrange articles of costume now displayed at the Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, in some systematic order so as to assist students in arriving at a scientific knowledge of the subject.

In January 835 the Zott in their national costume and with their own music were conducted on a great number of boats through Bagdad.

Either this king or an immediate successor introduced the present national costume, the dress worn by the Chinese before the Manchu conquest.

The characteristic costume of the Parsees (now frequently abandoned) is loose and flowing, very picturesque in appearance, and admirably adapted to the climate in which he lives.

One of the flags bore the image of a man, without moustaches or beard, dressed in a costume and helmet recalling those of the Circassians.

The inhabitants are distinguished from those of the mainland by peculiarities of dialect, costume and habits; and even the various peninsulas differ from each other in these particulars.

The cassock, though part of the canonical costume of the clergy, is not a liturgical vestment.

For the official costume of the various orders of clergy see the article Vestments.

The poor law was also amended, absolute religious liberty was proclaimed, and he even succeeded in inventing and popularizing a national costume which was in general use from 1778 till his death.

The Egyptian inscriptions show that Cambyses officially adopted the titles and the costume of the Pharaohs, although we may very well believe that he did not conceal his contempt for the customs and the religion of the Egyptians.

Paul embellished the costume of the cardinals, collected jewels for his own adornment, provided games and food for the Roman people and practically instituted the carnival.

In a contemporary psalter (preserved in the library of St Mark at Venice) there is a portrait of him, with a grey beard, crowned and robed in imperial costume.

The Rumanian women retain their native costume, and are further distinguished by the wooden cradles, slung over the shoulders, in which they carry their infants; the Servian mothers prefer a canvas bag.

Even the costume of the Croatian peasantry, to whom brilliant colours and intricate embroideries are always dear, proclaims their racial identity with the Serbs; their songs, dances and musical instruments, the chief part of their customs and folk-lore, their whole manner of life, so little changed by its closer contact with Western civilization, may be studied in Servia (q.v.) itself.

In the west division the population is wholly Teutonic, but in the east there is a strong Wendish or Slavonic element, still to be traced in the peculiar manners and costume of the country-people, though these are gradually disappearing.

In art they are most generally represented in military costume.

The maître d' looked at her skeptically, as if the woman passing in a revealing Middle Eastern belly dancing costume ahead of her was normal and jeans were not.

With Sex and the City costume designer and stylist Patricia Fields dressing the Devil women, the bag has received added cachet.

His costume otherwise was simple enough, consisting merely of a small kilt of white calico.

Some owners wear full period costume to really get into the swing of things.

Earn New costumes Cheats To get an alternate costume for your character, finish the Hard Match Race.

I was having no luck finding a sheep/lamb costume for my daughters Christmas Carol concert.

And Mongolia is represented with by a nobleman's costume that includes a robe made of yellow Russian silk damask.

Maggie Jewett, the school's assistant dean, told The Associated Press staff members were outraged at the costume.

By means of Stevens we see the slow deconstruction of his facade, his costume.

Quality costume jewelry picked up the now defunct fine jewelry market.

I'm hoping to become a succesful stylist and costume designer.

You have entered a fascinating world of collectible Russian costume dolls.