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costume

[kos-toom, -tyoom, ko-stoom, -styoom] / ˈkɒs tum, -tjum, kɒˈstum, -ˈstjum /


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“These kids were trying to keep up with the Joneses because they were the Joneses,” said Joshua Marsh, a costume designer for the show.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

In a video on X, external, Count Binface - who is comedian Jonathan Harvey without the costume - said he was the "winning candidate… of the candidates who bothered to turn up".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Its current incarnation is a student in a big red bear costume performing at sporting games.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

I still find glitter ground into our kitchen tiles from the Halloween when he made his daughter a purple witch costume.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

“Somehow your friend over there got hold of a ghost costume and won the prize.”

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Wearing bathing costumes and many carrying children, the tourists were moved to nearby beaches, while about 200 were taken to a ship waiting at sea, officials and public broadcaster ERT said.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Phil became an opera company and Disney an almost fullfledged opera house, staging Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas with sets by famed architects, beginning with Gehry, and costumes by edgy designers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Marco Piemontese’s striking period costumes conjured the artists’ milieu, and Marcus Doshi’s lighting evoked both festivity and the tragedy of the ending.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

This was a one-man show performed in two costumes.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

In fact, it had been Nine who’d found the cloak that Clare wore now, stuffed in a garbage bag full of human costumes.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Disneyland, one of the most popular destinations for families, has long provided the employees behind its parades and costumed characters with paid leave in the weeks after they become new parents.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Given the group’s commitment to costumed stage personas, the mixed sexuality of their members, and their name, the Village People came to represent the confluence of masculinity and queerness.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Plus, landscaping with three different budgets, and the costumed moviegoers who love “Michael” despite its reviews.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

She watched them go, their green-and- brown hunting gear the only solemn colors among the costumed guests, and then went back upstairs.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

They didn’t get to figure out staging, costuming and what made a good Beatle setlist.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

With each passing month, the book club became more elaborate and more involved — including vacations in coastal towns, costuming, pickleball tournaments and monogrammed custom merch.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

Bretaña says method dressing tends to work best with sci-fi or fantasy projects because of the inherent drama in their costuming.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

Swift says the goal of the Eras tour was to "over-serve" in terms of the number of songs performed, the extravagance of the costuming, and the details of each set design.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

“There is the matter of costuming her,” Mme.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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