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cosplay noun costume play, recreational dressing-up as movie, historical or Japanese anime characters as part of fandom or as an expression of fetish appetites UK The trend, as opposed to the fetish, seems to have originated in Japan.- It’s the Rubber Pineapple cosplay shop. — www.auchinawa.org.uk, 9 October 1990
- Also the popularity can be seen in doujinshi and cosplay (costume play) and the popularity is not just junior high girls. — Hitoshi Doi, rec.arts.anime, 14 May 1993
- Japan is generally credited as the origin of cosplay, but there are no actual facts of when the cosplay culture started. The credit for coining the word “cosplay” seems more apparent though ... although there are a few versions on how it was created, the credit goes to Nobuyuki Takahashi when he first used the word in some Japanese magazines in 1983/1984. — Yein Jee, yeinjee.com, 3 July 2008
- I would like to suggest a Cosplay Convention in Colchester, Essex, England[.] — www.cosplay.com, 23 July 2008
- — Angela Lewis, My Other Self, p. 269, 2010
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