costumed

1. 1
   adjective

   Wearing a costume; disguised.

   Costumed performers paraded through the streets during the carnival.

   The costumed guests filled the ballroom for the masquerade.

   Similardisguised, masked

   Note

   Here the word describes how someone looks, not what was done to them, and it usually stands before a noun: costumed performers, costumed guests. Marc Llewellyn and Lee Mylne's Frommer's Australia from $60 a Day (2006) has costumed waitresses serving beer, in theme dress with nothing hidden. That puts the everyday use at the mild end of "disguised." It takes no degrees, so more costumed is not idiomatic.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of costume.

   The designer costumed the entire opera on a tight budget.

   Volunteers costumed the actors before the curtain rose.

   Note

   One spelling does three jobs: the plain past (she costumed the cast), the perfect with have (has costumed) and the passive with be (the actors were costumed by noon). The verb is transitive, since someone costumes a person or a whole production. Its passive slides easily into the adjective for someone in costume, so were costumed can report an action or describe a state.

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