Costume vs Catgirl - What's the difference?
costume | catgirl |
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
(chiefly, Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.
* 2009 , Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga (page 222)
* 2010 , Jonathan Clements, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade
A female who wears a cat costume.
As nouns the difference between costume and catgirl
is that costume is a style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people while catgirl is (chiefly|japanese fiction) a female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.As a verb costume
is to dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.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.
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English
Alternative forms
* cat-girlNoun
(en noun)- But publishers cannot survive on cute catgirls alone.
- Back in 1997, the Japanese magazines made a big deal out of the fact that the catgirl detective anime Hyper Police was on at one in the morning