Definitions
Dressing up as a fictional or media character.
Word origin
Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.
Used in a sentence
“Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers.”
“The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.”
“It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Costume fandom activity”7 letters
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