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COSTUMED
costumed
(adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
costumed
simple past tense and past participle of costume
Adjective
costumed (not comparable)
Wearing a costume; disguised.
Anagrams
• customed
Source: Wiktionary
COSTUME
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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