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The Meaning of costume

  • (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Synonyms

tog up , prink , trick out , fancy up , dress up , fig up , rig out , deck out , bard , gussy up , tog out , window-dress , dress , barde , caparison , deck up , fig out , get up , overdress , attire , trick up , apparel , clothes , garb , habit , uniform , array , clothing , garments , raiment , vestments , habiliments , robes , vesture , clothe , enclothe , tog , garment , habilitate , fit out

Antonyms

bareness , dishabille , exposure , nakedness , nudity , undress , disarray

Rhymes

abloom , assume , backroom , ballroom , barroom , bathroom , bedroom , bloom , blum , blume , boardroom , boom , bridegroom , broom , broome , brume , classroom , cloakroom , consume , courtroom , croom , crume , darkroom , doom , elbowroom , entomb , exhume , flume , fume , gloom , glume , groom , groome , grume , handloom , headroom , heirloom , hume , kaboom , khartoum , kume , legroom , legume , loom , lunchroom , mailroom , maktoum , mcbroom , neume , perfume , playroom , plume , presume , reassume , reaume , restroom , resume , rheaume , rheum , room , schoolroom , showroom , spoom , spume , stockroom , storeroom , sunroom , tomb , toolroom , vroom , washroom , whom , womb , workroom , zoom