COSTUME

Definitions

1. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2. 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. 3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.