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Definition of Costumery
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costumery
Literary usage of Costumery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... cut it down, cut it down—you get a leetle too much costumery on to your
statements: always dress a fact in tights, never in an ulster;" or, "Pardon, ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"... now go on;" or, "Wait—you are getting that too strong; cut it down, cut it
down—you get a leetle too much costumery on to your ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"Salt air and a bathing suit have bred in them rebellion against the whole world
of artifice and especially against costumery that narrows existence with its ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... it had fallen into disrepair and possibly as offering too great temptation to
undergraduate efforts in gymnastics, statuary, painting, or costumery. ..."
5. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"He still had some lurking thought of stage performance, and saw in his mind a
spectacular presentation, with all the costumery of an early period as ..."
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