costume
/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ noun B2- A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
- An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc. · We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
- A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season. · The bride wore a grey going-away costume.
- A swimming costume.
Plural costumes
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My costume and Marie’s hat were just what I needed.
It was in this costume, and bringing back to Jacopo the shirt and trousers he had lent him, that Edmond reappeared before the captain of the lugger, who had made him tell his story over and over again before he could believe him, or recognize in the neat and trim sailor the man with thick and matted beard, hair tangled with seaweed, and body soaking in seabrine, whom he had picked up naked and nearly drowned.
Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume.
First they came to a great hall in which were many ladies and gentlemen of the court, all dressed in rich costumes.
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