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Another word for costume

Noun

  1. A set or style of clothing

    2. See also:

    put-on

  2. Clothes or other personal effects, such as makeup, worn to conceal one's identity

    3. See also:

    show

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Another word for costume

Verb
    2. See also:

    clothe

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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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

  • CARMAGNOLE (from Carmagnola, the town in Italy), a word first applied to a Piedmontese peasant costume, well known in the south of France, and brought to Paris by the revolutionaries of Marseilles in 1798.

  • 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.

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