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costume
What does costume mean?
costume (noun): an outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use costume in a sentence?
- He won the prize for best costume. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does costume come from?
Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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