costumier
/kɒˈstjuːmɪə
/(also US costumer /kɒˈstjuːmə/)
noun
A person or company that makes or supplies theatrical or fancy-dress costumes: a theatrical costumier...
- The company had an imaginative director and two budding theatrical costumiers who saved the day.
- ‘We have tried local theatrical costumiers but no one has exactly the right period.’
- A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
Origin
Mid 19th century: French, from costumer 'dress in a costume' (see costume).
Rhymes
- supplementary triangle
- supplementation
- supplementer
- supplementor
- suppleness
- supple silk
- suppletion
- suppletive
- suppletory
- suppletory oath
- Supplex
- suppliable
- suppliance
- suppliancy
- suppliant
- suppliant-like
- suppliantly
- suppliantness
- supplicancy
- supplicant
- supplicantly
- supplicat
- supplicate
- supplicatingly
- supplication