Cos-tūme' or Côs'tūme, n.

n. [Fr. costume, custom, dress, It. costume, Pr. costum, costuma, L. Lat. costuma, costumia, cosduma, cosdrina, from Lat. consuetumen, for consuetudo, custom. See CONSUETUDE.]

1. An established manner, mode, or style, especially of dress, adopted in a particular country or province, or belonging to a particular period of time.
2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or the like, as is self-consistent, and appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.

I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. . . . I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts. . . . The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.