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What are the technical terms in cosplay?

Costume (noun) = costume of the character, costume

Clothing (verb) = clothing

Costumer= someone who dresses like a character, similar to cosplayer.

Cosplay- origin: the abbreviation of English "CostumePlay" put forward by Nov.Takahashi. His inspiration came from the international masquerade ball in San Francisco, USA. His enthusiasm for Cosplay expressed in the article (1982) published in the Japanese magazine "MyAnime" triggered the 1982-83 Cosplay movement in Japan. Although cosplay did not originate in Japan, the current cosplay in the United States has been greatly influenced by Japanese cosplay.

Cosplay (noun) = wearing clothes about anime characters.

Cosplay (verb) = Put on clothes about cartoon characters.

Cosplayer= the man in costume.

Crossplay (verb) = part of cosplay: play the opposite sex in cosplay.

Crossplayer = a person who plays the opposite sex in cosplay.

Cross dressing = wearing clothes of the opposite sex. Just because a person is cross-dressing, it doesn't mean that he is cross-playing (that is, pretending to be a man, and the latter likes girls' clothes, so the former is cross dressing, not cross-playing). Crossplay has nothing to do with cosdressing, it is only related to the gender of the actor and the gender of the object.

Example: (Sorry, I can't translate the name: P)

Boys cosNuriko and KamatariorMana are not cross-dressing but cross-dressing.

CosNuriko and KamatariorMana, girls, are transvestites, but they are not transvestites.

CosUtenaorSakura, a boy, is a cross board and a cross string.