costume
/ˈkɒstjuːm/ nounDefinition
PLAY [C, U] › a set of clothes that someone wears to make them look like someone or something else, for example in a play: actors in costume He arrived at the party dressed in a gorilla costume.
TYPICAL CLOTHES [U] › a set of clothes that are typical of a particular country or time in history: Japanese national costume → See also swimming costume
(Definition of costume noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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