(n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
(n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
(n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(2) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(3) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
(4) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
(5) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
(6) It is one of the most famous costumes in film history.
(7) There was a shop that I knew of because I've been in there a couple of times before and I knew they sold costume jewellery and stuff.
(8) Dad brought us up on Star Wars from when we were old enough to not be scared ... We grew up in our teenage years absolutely loving Star Wars,” said Michael Kidd, who came to see the film dressed as Chewbacca along with his Hans-Solo-costumed wife and Jedi-dressed family.
(9) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(10) It gave a good aerial view of the place: the fake trees, the sign forbidding adults from entering the photo tent without a child, the costumed staff.
(11) The film also brings in Weerasethakul's own family history, and childhood memories of lo-fi horror movies and TV shows (lots of red-eyed monsters, shot in darkness to cover up their shoddy costumes).
(12) The art director Eiko Ishioka, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, came from that Japanese graphic tradition and took it around the world in every medium – advertising, cinema, theatre, circus, fashion and the conjunction of them all that was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, for which she designed the costumes.
(13) The extent of the bone resection has been in relation with clinical picture, myelography and mainly operative findings, aiming at a "cut-to-measure costum".
(14) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
(15) He spent weeks with costume getting the right suit tailoring, and his reading of the character restored Bond’s manly pugnacity but ditched the dated chauvinism.
(16) When the air temperature is -3C and you are in your swimming costume you really don’t want to be hanging around – so the organisers’ swiftness and efficiency was appreciated.
(17) Costumes and models were devised on the basis of existing American and Soviet prototypes.
(18) His journey to the real costume began at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and he was turning heads soon after his graduation with stage performances in Kes and Romeo and Juliet , winning the Manchester Evening News award for Best Newcomer in 2004 before scooping Outstanding Newcomer at the Evening Standard theatre awards two years later.
(19) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(20) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
Domino
Definition:
(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
(n.) A person wearing a domino.
(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(3) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(4) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(5) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(6) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) The Domino system and a 1-2 days stay were the preferred options (25 and 24 per cent respectively).
(11) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(12) Then there is a domino effect, as reefs fail so will other ecosystems.
(13) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
(14) On Thursday, Domino’s Australia unveiled a pizza delivery robot in Brisbane.
(15) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
(16) In what Brown has described as a "domino" strategy, his meetings today with developing countries were planned to produce an agreement about a pledge to curb emissions.
(17) "The more countries that go down this path, the bigger the domino effect.
(18) At the start of this decade Iceland would have made an unlikely candidate for the first sovereign-state domino to fall in the financial meltdown.
(19) An algorithm for the calculation of plausibilities of paternity for the HLA system is presented, which is based on the concept of the game of domino.
(20) … I knew I would be like a domino in the line of fire Christopher Hansen Hansen was at the bar.