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COSTUMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does costumed mean?
• COSTUMED (adjective)
The adjective COSTUMED has 1 sense:
1. dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class
Familiarity information: COSTUMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The collective appearance of the gentlemen, like that of the ladies, is very imposing: they are all costumed in black; most of them are tall, some young.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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