costumeとは

語源

Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costuma, ultimately from Latin consuetudo, consuetudinem (“custom”). Doublet of custom. Doublet of consuetude.

発音

• (英国発音, noun, verb) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/, /ˈkɒs.tʃuːm/
• (米国発音, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/
• (米国発音, verb) IPA^(key): /kɑsˈt(j)uːm/, /kɑsˈtʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.t(j)uːm/, /ˈkɑs.tʃuːm/, /ˈkɑs.təm/

名詞

costume (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 costumes)

1. 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.

2. An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.

   We wore gorilla costumes to the party.

3. A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

   The bride wore a grey going-away costume.

同意語

• outfit

派生語

関連する語

• customary
• custom

参考

• uniform

動詞

costume (三人称単数 現在形 costumes, 現在分詞 costuming, 過去形および過去分詞形 costumed)

1. To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, 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.

Further reading

• costume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• costume in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• custome