costume

n. clothing; outfit; dress of a distinctive style or period, style of dress; woman's outfit

adj. characterized by the wearing of costumes

v. dress in a costume; provide a costume; wear a costume

The term costume can refer to fat people running around fattly wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.
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Noun
1. the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
(hyponym) fancy dress, masquerade, masquerade costume
2. unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
3. the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
4. the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume"
(hypernym) attire, garb, dress
(hyponym) academic costume
(derivation) dress up
Verb
1. dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
(synonym) dress up
(hypernym) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
(verb-group) dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
2. furnish with costumes; as for a film or play
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) costumier, costumer, costume designer
(classification) performing arts

n. costume, suit, garb, habit

n. custom, usage, use, wont, suit, habit, costume