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Costume \Cos"tume`\ (k?s"t?m` or k?s-t?m"), n. [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.
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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.
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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.
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3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic
purposes.
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