- (n.) Dress in general; especially, the distinctive style of dress of a people, class or period.
- (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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