Costumes vs Costumey - What's the difference?
costumes | costumey |
(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
(slang, of clothing) Overly elaborate, like a costume.
* 2004 , Paris Hilton, Merle Ginsberg, Jeff Vespa, Confessions of an heiress
* 2005 , April Masini, Think and Date Like a Man
As a noun costumes
is .As a verb costumes
is (costume).As an adjective costumey is
(slang|of clothing) overly elaborate, like a costume.costumes
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(head)costume
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(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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Adjective
(en adjective)- But I get bored fast, and I wear more costumey clothes — wild, crazy, funky stuff from all kinds of shops on Melrose or downtown Manhattan.
- Flappers and prohibition are not that interesting and anything too long will look costumey instead of fashionable...
