Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
COSTUME
costume
(noun) the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; āhe won the prize for best costumeā
costume
(noun) the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; āhe wore his national costumeā
costume
(noun) unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; āin spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costumeā
costume
(noun) the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
costume, dress up
(verb) dress in a costume; āWe dressed up for Halloween as pumpkinsā
costume
(verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
costume (countable and uncountable, plural costumes)
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
Synonyms
• outfit
Verb
costume (third-person singular simple present costumes, present participle costuming, simple past and past participle costumed)
To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
Anagrams
• custome
Source: Wiktionary
Cos"tume` (ks"tm` or ks-tm"), n. Etym: [F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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