in costume

idiom

: wearing a costume

If all the actors are in costume, we're ready to begin.

The waiters were all in ancient Roman costume.

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Market merchants dress up and pass out candy to kiddos in costume. —

Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024 Advertisement Some members in the audience showed up in costume but none could compete with the wondrously weird mélange of butoh dance, shadow puppetry, ghosts of various varieties, nurses seeming straight out of horror films along with models, tormented and otherwise. —

Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024 Things escalate quickly, and when the play opens, the brawlers are in Wally’s office, still dressed in costume, and the boss is chewing them out. —

Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024 Character Development Twist No. 1: The extremely starchy Lieutenant Connor is the only other staff member at the precinct to be in costume. —

Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for in costume