Meaning of costume | Babel Free

Definitions

1. custom; tradition (traditional practice or behavior)
   masculine
2. custom; habit (action done on a regular basis)
   masculine
3. custom (long-established practice, considered as unwritten law)
   masculine

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Examples

“mandamos que enna friigesía que ouuer XV friigeses ou mays poucos, se non tomaren lobo ou loba ou camada delles, ou non correren cada domaa con elles sen enganno segundo que e de custume des o primeyro sabado de quaresma ata dia de Sam Joham de Juyo, ou non fezeren o ffogio, que pagen X mrs.”

We order that in the parish that has 15 parishioners or more, if they don't catch a wolf or litter of them, or if they don't raid them weekly without trickery, as it is used, since the first Saturday of Lent till Saint John's day in June, or if they don't build the pit, then they shall pay 10 mrs.

“que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra”

because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

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