Definition of Costume

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Costume

Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

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.

A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

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Costume Quotations

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
Stephen Sondheim

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.
Dawn French

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?
Drew Carey

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Morgan Freeman

Costume Translations

costume in Afrikaans is pak klere
costume in Dutch is gewaad, klederdracht, costuum, dracht
costume in Finnish is puku
costume in French is costume, accoutrement
costume in Portuguese is traje
costume in Spanish is traje

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