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Costume vs Getup - What's the difference?

costume | getup |

As nouns the difference between costume and getup

is that costume is a style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people while getup is (chiefly|us|informal) a costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.

As a verb costume

is to dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

costume

English

(wikipedia costume)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
    • ''The dancer was wearing Highland costume .
  • An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
    • ''We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
  • A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
    • ''The bride wore a grey going-away costume .

    Synonyms

    * outfit

    Derived terms

    * costumal * costume drama * costume jewellery * costume party * costumer, costumier * national costume

    Related terms

    * customary * custom

    See also

    * uniform

    Verb

  • To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • 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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    getup

    English

    Alternative forms

    * get up * get-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, informal) A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
  • *1899 ,
    • When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.
  • * 1917 , " 1,200 Reading Firemen March," Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania, USA), 28 Oct. p. 4:
    • The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup , received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.
  • * 2009 , " Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009," Newsweek , 6 June:
    • [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.
  • (informal) A fight or altercation.
  • * 2002 , Andrea Sachs, " Caricature Builder," Time , 21 Jan.:
    • "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."
  • (publishing) Layout and production style, as of a magazine.

    • See also

    * all get up * get up