Noun: costume
| Singular | costume |
| Plural | costumes |
Sample Sentences
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the sight of thousands of people gathered to watch men walk the streets openly in female costume [1971, Tonie Metie, “Unmasquerade”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 1:]
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The apology came after a netizen claimed Soberano was supposedly doing a black face, but the latter said, in defense, it was just a “costume.” [2019, Krissy Aguilar, “Liza Soberano Apologizes for Comments on ‘Black Face’”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:]
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We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
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The bride wore a grey going-away costume.
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They call their bathing suits down there "costumes." [1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:]
Nouns inflected like costume
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude, custom, and kastom.
2. Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer. See: French Nouns '
costume', Italian Nouns '
costume', Latin Nouns '
consuetudo'.
Verbs referencing "costume"
English Nouns
cosplay.