'masquerade costume' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a costume that someone is wearing to a masquerade ball or similar type of event. For example: She arrived at the masquerade ball wearing a beautiful masquerade costume.
An ornate masquerade costume transports a dancer symbolically from the earthly to the spiritual realm.
"Once upon a time she had studied the necessary details for her masquerade costume," Brown observes.
And, less seriously, they can be a fun fashion accessory or a nifty addition to a masquerade costume.
THE one object that we all agreed was in complete concordance with its name was an eye-popping, multicolored Yoruba "Egungun," or masquerade costume, from Nigeria made of fabric, plastic, mirror, aluminum, beads and coins.
These are some of the entrants in the masquerade costume competition.
It is a 2008 take on a masquerade costume, complete with a mask comprised of flowers.
Yet it mostly feels like an especially jazzy class project, with Cliffs Notes-like expositions disguised in masquerade costumes (2 30).
In trying to appeal to both those who are and those who are not familiar with the play's highbrow heroines, the show winds up sacrificing its dramatic energy to Cliff Notexpositionsositions disguised in masquerade costumes.
The annual event features masquerade balls, costume and mask contests, parties and parades.
Twelve hundred friends were invited to a masquerade, and each costume was more outrageous than the one before.
Next Saturday at 7 p.m. at Coe Hall, the family's former estate in Oyster Bay that is now a museum at the Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, the Planting Fields Foundation will play host to Masquerade Madness, a costume party inspired by the Coes' Jazz Age flights of fancy.
