costume

Main Entry:
costume [n. kos-toom, -tyoom; v. ko-stoom, -styoom]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: set of clothes
Synonyms: apparel, attire, clothing, dress, duds, ensemble, fashion, garb, getup, guise, livery, mode, outfit, rig, robes, style, suit, uniform, wardrobe
Notes: costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place'
Main Entry: attire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing
Synonyms: accoutrements, apparel, array, bib and tucker, clothes, costume, drapes, dress, duds, garb, garments, gear, getup, habiliments, habit, outfit, raiment, things, threads, togs, uniform, vestment, wear
Notes: apparel highlights the sense of clothes as material; attire, the sense of clothes as dress
Main Entry: attire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clothe
Synonyms: accoutre, array, clad, costume, deck, deck out, doll up, drape, dress, dud, dude up, equip, fit out, outfit, suit up, tog, turn out
Notes: apparel highlights the sense of clothes as material; attire, the sense of clothes as dress
Antonyms: disrobe
Main Entry: clothe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cover with apparel
Synonyms: accouter, apparel, array, attire, bedizen, bedrape, breech, bundle up, caparison, cloak, coat, costume, dandify, deck, disguise, dizen, do up, drape, dress, dress up, dud, endow, endue, enwrap, equip, fit, fit out, garb, gown, guise, habilitate, habit, invest, jacket, livery, mantle, outfit, primp, raiment, rig, robe, spruce, suit up, swaddle, swathe, tog, turn out, vest
Antonyms: reveal, take off, unclothe, uncover
Main Entry: clothes/clothing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal attire
Synonyms: Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, array, caparison, civvies, costume, covering, drag*, drapery, dress, duds, ensemble, equipment, finery, frippery, frock, full feather, garb, garments, gear, get-up, habiliment, habit, hand-me-downs, livery, mufti, outfit, overclothes, panoply, rags, raiment, regalia, rigging, sack, sportswear, tailleur, tatters, things*, threads, toggery, togs, tout ensemble, trappings, trousseau, underclothes, vestment, vesture, vines, wardrobe, wear, weeds, zoot suit
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: covering, makeup for deception
Synonyms: beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer
Main Entry: dress
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing; woman's garment
Synonyms: Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, attire, attirement, civvies, costume, covering, drape, dry goods, duds, ensemble, evening clothes, frock, garb, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, muumuu, outfit, pinafore, raiment, robe, shift, skirt, smock, suit, things*, threads, tog, toga, toggery, trappings, uniform, vestment, wardrobe
Main Entry: dress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put on clothing
Synonyms: adorn, apparel, array, attire, bedeck, bundle up, change, clad, clothe, costume, cover, deck, decorate, don, drape, embellish, fit out, furbish, garb, ornament, outfit, primp, put on, raiment, rig, robe, slip into, slip on, spruce up, suit up, trim, turn out, wear
Antonyms: bare, disrobe, lay bare, unclothe, undress
Main Entry: duds
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothes
Synonyms: Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, array, civvies, costume, covering, dress, finery, frippery, frock, garb, garments, habiliment, outfit, rags, raiment, sportswear, tatters, threads, wardrobe
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