costume

n. ஆடை, அங்கி, மாதர் புற உடை, பகட்டணி உடை, உடையின் பாணி, உடையின் புதுமை நயம், விசித்திரமான உடை, வேடிக்கை நடிப்பு உடை, (வி.) உடை வழங்கு, உடையணிவி, உடுத்து.

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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.