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costume

/noun kos-toom, -tyoom; verb ko-stoom, -styoom/US // noun ˈkɒs tum, -tyum; verb kɒˈstum, -ˈstyum //UK // (ˈkɒstjuːm) //

服装

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
    • : dress or garb characteristic of another period, place, person, etc., as worn on the stage or at balls.
    • : fashion of dress appropriate to a particular occasion or season: dancing costume; winter costume.
    • : a set of garments, especially women's garments, selected for wear at a single time; outfit; ensemble.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cos·tumed, cos·tum·ing.

    • : to dress; furnish with a costume; provide appropriate dress for: to costume a play.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characterized by the wearing of costumes: a costume party.
    • : meant for use with or appropriate to a specific costume: costume accessories.

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Examples

  • Katy Perry was flanked by dancers wearing shark costumes during her 2015 performance.

  • You aunt has hit a new low in attempts to act as costume director at a wedding.

  • I don’t know what furries did 50 years ago beyond imagining or surreptitiously donning a wolf costume.

  • We added a place to hang Halloween costumes, party dresses, ski clothes and “just-in-case” fashion.

  • Officials at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center said a staff member wearing an inflatable Christmas tree costume to spread holiday cheer likely spread coronavirus-laden droplets instead.

  • Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.

  • The brand logo turned out to feature a graceful archer on horseback, in a Tatar national costume, poised to shoot his arrow.

  • He then dons a Spider-Man costume and savagely starts attacking criminals.

  • What makes this story resonate with fans is that it proves it takes more than just the costume to become “Spider-Man.”

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute has staged some truly fantastic shows over the past few years.

  • I had no idea who they were, as the Grand Duke was in morning costume, and had no star or decoration to distinguish him.

  • Movement to know that she was attired in appropriate costume—short frock, biped continuations and a mannish oil-skin hat.

  • If she is so distingue in rather less than ordinary dress, what would she be in a Parisian costume?

  • It was a corso blanc, and everyone wore white—chiefly modifications of Pierrot costume—and everyone was masked.

  • In this portrait of tiny dimensions the Prince is represented in fancy costume, after the manner of Holbein.