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national costumes

national costumes is the plural of national costume.

Meaning of national costume

Noun

national costume (plural national costumes)

  1. Clothing of a particular style and colours worn to represent a country at international events, or as part of national celebrations.
    • When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop...1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325

Questions about national costumes

What is national costumes the plural of?
National costumes is the plural of national costume.

Words near national costumes in the dictionary

  1. national conservative
  2. national conservatives
  3. national convention
  4. national conventions
  5. national costume
  6. national costumes
  7. national court
  8. national courts
  9. national day
  10. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
  11. national days

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