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Meanings of stage dresses in English
Clothes used by performers on stage; particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character at a social event in a theatrical performance on the stage or in film or television.
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Examples for "costumes"
Examples for "costumes"
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Creating costumes for a story about real people, however, was a minefield.
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Expect to see a lot more costumes than you see right now.
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The costumes varied in a like manner to the arms and animals.
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There was no attempt at beauty in the costumes of the masqueraders.
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How do they go to the bathroom in those costumes?,' he said.
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I am not sure whether it is real and business-like or a theatrical costume.
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The theatrical costume Miss Hackett would return by a messenger without implicating Melinda Crachett.
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And no critic has ever written so well, or so thoroughly, about theatrical costume.
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Their mother was at work on a theatrical costume.
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Nothing could be more ignorant, unsuitable, or unbecoming, that the whole system of theatrical costume.
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We got about 30 quid a week, which wasn't even enough to buy stage clothes.
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At the garage the Barrymores were waiting for him in their stage clothes and make-up.
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Now I make stage clothes.
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There was a valet who took care of all the stage clothes, a necessity on the road with that many people.
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She slipped off the stage dress and put on her hat and coat.
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And there she was, still in her ragged stage dress, carrying her hat and coat on her arm.
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Probably to increase the mystery she had gone straight home in her stage dress, and had succeeded in dodging the stage-door keeper.
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She pondered for a few moments over it, then reached for her cloak and drew it on over her brilliant stage dress.
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Then the dancer must change her dress, fold her stage dress carefully away, make up her bundle, and set out for home.
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The writer also describes his father's various theatrical costumes which were scattered about the family's small Fifth Avenue apartment.
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Near Fourteenth street Elsie saw a placard tacked on the side of a doorway that read: Fifty girls, neat sewers, wanted immediately on theatrical costumes.
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'I should imagine, you know,' said Miss Marple, 'that it would be Zobeida's theatrical costumes.
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"Mademoiselle Virginie Cluhe has ordered five theatrical costumes, two dinner, and three morning dresses."
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[Footnote A: It must be remembered that theatrical costumes, as we see them to-day, did not exist.