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 acce ories, ornaments, utensils, .of such forms and colours as historical knowledge proves them really to have po e ed. Chamber COTE' op.DROIT, COTE' [s. 304]