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costume

[kos-toom, -tyoom, ko-stoom, -styoom] / ˈkɒs tum, -tjum, kɒˈstum, -ˈstjum /


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Titled, “Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar,” the show covers the years Saar spent in the costume department for the Inner City Cultural Center’s theatrical productions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Johnny Depp also made a special appearance in costume as Ebenezer Scrooge ahead of the festive dark fantasy Ebenezer being released in November.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, Salvatore hopes to have surgery in the summer, so that, for the first time in years, he can wear a swimming costume without feeling self-conscious.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

What about a bear, or a fan in a bear costume?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Adding to the fun is a new costume change.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Wojciech Dziedzic’s costumes took their cues from the video, including 1960s looks for the chorus in Act 2.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

You had to worry about budgets, deal with lawyers, manage crews, rent the studio, budget the carpentry hours, handle costumes.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

David Bowie: On Tour, which opens at V&A Dundee on 4 November, includes costumes, instruments and photographs, some of which have never been on public display before.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

When Garth threw a piece of wadded-up paper in my cage, I wondered about the costumes.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Given the group’s commitment to costumed stage personas, the mixed sexuality of their members, and their name, the Village People came to represent the confluence of masculinity and queerness.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Perhaps the book’s greatest feat is its depiction of the historical moment when the modern overpowered the ancient—a world, now lost, of floridly costumed courtiers, fabled princes, exotic vices and perfumed palaces.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

It's Saturday afternoon and the tournament resembles a beach bash in full swing, costumed bodies heaving under the blazing sun.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

He was also costumed in black and white, though for different reasons.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

They didn’t get to figure out staging, costuming and what made a good Beatle setlist.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

She zeroes in on the singer-songwriter’s frequent choice of yellow costuming and golden headwear, callouts to Yoruba culture and its spirits.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Ms. Peck’s three dancers, dressed in Ms. Page’s casual-clothes costuming, slightly featured Mr. Lendorf, though more from his own charisma than from her unmemorable inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

Swift says the goal of the Eras tour was to "over-serve" in terms of the number of songs performed, the extravagance of the costuming, and the details of each set design.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

What Lana had seen of the act so far was not promising, but Darlene said that the costuming would transform the performance into a thing of beauty.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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