costume
/kɑsˈt(j)um/ verb C2- To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
He/she/it costumes · Past costumed · Past participle costumed · -ing form costuming
Verb forms
- Base form
- costume
- He/she/it
- costumes
- Past
- costumed
- Past participle
- costumed
- -ing form
- costuming
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He threw some dust over the topcoat, which he had found time to unhook from the antechamber and button over his ball costume, and going to Chapelle-en-Serval he knocked loudly at the door of the only inn in the place.
Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume.
He was dressed in a rich costume of pink silk and purple velvet, and my grandfather thought he would see what he could do.
Dantès himself was simply, but becomingly, clad in the dress peculiar to the merchant service—a costume somewhat between a military and a civil garb; and with his fine countenance, radiant with joy and happiness, a more perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined.
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