Word Meanings - COSTUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate

Additional info about word: COSTUME

custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. 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. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh. 3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COSTUME)

• Attire
• Robes
• garments
• clothing
• vestments
• habiliment
• habit
• raiment
• clothes
• garb
• apparel
• accoutrement
• livery
• uniform
• costume
• Dress
• Garniture
• preparation
• arrangement
• habiliments
• accoutrements
• attire
• array
• investiture
• Garb

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COSTUME)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip

Related words: (words related to COSTUME)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• RAIMENT
  1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.
• DISARRAY
  1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• HABILIMENT
  Dress, in general. Shak. (more info) clothe, orig., to make fit, make ready, fr. habile apt, skillful, L. 1. A garment; an article of clothing. Camden. 2. pl.
• ARRAY
  arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. reithi rigging, harness; akin to E. 1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement;
• COSTUME
  custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.