Clothes vs Costumes - What's the difference?
clothes | costumes |
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (obsolete) .
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
* Prior
(costume)
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A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
As nouns the difference between clothes and costumes
is that clothes is items of clothing; apparel while costumes is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between clothes and costumes
is that clothes is third-person singular of clothe while costumes is third-person singular of costume.clothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
Derived terms
(terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothesSee also
* clothing * gear * threadsEtymology 2
costumes
English
Noun
Verb
(head)costume
English
(wikipedia costume)Noun
(en noun)- ''The dancer was wearing Highland costume .
- ''We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
- ''The bride wore a grey going-away costume .
Synonyms
* outfitDerived terms
* costumal * costume drama * costume jewellery * costume party * costumer, costumier * national costumeSee also
* uniformVerb
- Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.
