Read full poem →in short every thing connected with their domestic arrangements or
costume, as well as their pedigrees and possessions. Wills are un-
questionably the most satisfactory. It is, therefore, unnecessary to
Dictionary Entry
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
In a Sentence
“The dancer was wearing Highland costume.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. costumedesign costumedesigner costumejewelry costumecostume national
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Poetry examples for “costume”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Abel Drugger is a character of a more general cast ; with
a few variations, and those chiefly of outward costume,
Jifs prototype, might be round in tjje present day. The qb-
Read full poem →undeniable fact that two times two is four, he rejoices in a purely
irresistible truth (to be found, in abbreviated costume, upon the title
page of the present volume.)
Read full poem →suffragist. Or indecorum would be hinted in the relations between
this enigmatic woman, so prone seemingly to don male costume, and
the burly clerk who attended her so faithfully and had brought her
Read full poem →Portrait of the Celebrated Indian Chief Tecumseh, in full Costume 370
Read full poem →How vivid! The lines owe something to his eye for costume, for staging;
but, as mere picture writing, it is as firm as if carved on an obelisk.
Read full poem →Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners,
troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me.