costume
noun
a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
have costumed
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present perfectof costume.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Like little boys playing superheroes, both Bowie and Jackson have costumed their androgynous bodies as soldiers, gangsters, pirates, cowboys, and astronauts.
From Slate ● May 22, 2013
All her gowns were lovely loose or draped or girdled things: you could have costumed the whole cast of two Maeterlinck plays from just those hangers.
From The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer
The twelfth- century glassworker would sooner have worn a landscape on his back than have costumed his church with it; he would as soon have decorated his floors with painted holes as his walls.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
