0 the set of clothes typical of a particular country or period of history, or suitable for a particular activity: --
UK The shop has a good selection of bikinis and bathing/swimming costumes.
The dancers leading the procession were in colourful and elaborate costumes.
Singers performing Mozart's operas often dress in/wear historical costume.
1 a set of clothes worn in order to look like someone else, esp. for a party or as part of an entertainment: --
Rather than explain and analyse, most journalists have instead focused upon the bizarre costumes and even more bizarre customs of the combatants.
The participants wore costumes in accordance with the group they were supposedly representing - tradesmen, foreigners, country folk and so forth.
They never appear in person, but instead are always costumed with the eyeball symbol.
The costumes and stage backdrops were covered with embroidery of high quality.
His costumes were displayed in department stores, and a new species of flower was named after him.
In my mind's eye the characters invoked by this music don't wear clothes, but costumes.
His hair is in dreadlocks, but this plan was apparently soon abandoned (these are, in the end, only sketches for costumes).
No major operatic composers designed their own scenery or costumes.
