Dress
Dress noun - Clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation.
Usage example: a bagpiper in full Scottish Highlander dress
Guise is a synonym for dress in costume topic. In some cases you can use "Guise" instead the word "Dress" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like clothing, put on.
Guise
Guise noun - Clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation.
Usage example: she felt as though she should be wearing some sort of Germanic guise, complete with dirndl, for the fall festival featuring traditional German food and drink
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Both words in one sentence
- Saber Red is from Fate/EXTRA, and her wedding dress outfit is her civilian guise.
Source: Fan Fic / Nerve Damage - Gender Bender: The Author has stated that Nephilim are created when the Fallen mate with human women but Semyazza is known most as the woman in the green dress, although often in this guise he doesn't mate with human men, he tempts them-as he did with Atlas and Ben Altair.
Source: Tabletop Game / New Vindicators -
When Mulder travels back in time on a luxury liner trapped in the Bermuda Triangle, he encounters his colleagues and enemies in the guise of various World War II protagonists, one of whom happens to be OSS agent Scully in a red cocktail dress.
Source: Kiss Me, I'm Virtual
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