COSTUME

(It.) In Painting and Sculpture, this word has become used chiefly as a term denoting the particular sort of dre suitable to the subject, according to the time in which the action is supposed to have taken place; but the word has a more general signification, inasmuch as it includes the keeping of all the acces-sories, ornaments, utensils, . of such forms and colours as historical knowledge proves them really to have posCOTE' DROIT, COTE' [s. 301]