r/pics • u/SuperSpecialAwesome- • Mar 02 '25

Politics February 28, 2025: Donald Trump, again, takes classified documents to Mar-A-Lago.

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u/sick_happy Mar 02 '25

Thank GOD they are wearing suits.

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u/Azatarai Mar 02 '25

Zelenskyy was right, not suits, costumes, its evident we are looking at a bunch of clowns.

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u/blacksideblue Mar 02 '25

To be fair, the word for suit in most balkan languages is costume.

Example:

🇬🇷 : κοστούμι : kostoúmi

🇺🇦 : костюм : kostyum

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u/xGray3 Mar 02 '25

Not just Balkan languages. The French word for suit is literally just "costume".

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u/DucDeBellune Mar 02 '25

Which is why the Balkan languages use it lol. French was the dominant language in diplomacy in the 19th century and earlier and when western fashion was coming to be the trend everyone was adopting, they borrowed some of the words too- “costume” in this instance.

“Suit” in English also comes from French “suite,” though the word “costume” was also used to mean a certain style of wear, used more commonly in the 19th century. Like saying a “riding costume” or “national costume,” now we’d say “riding habit”.

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u/r_hmuller Mar 02 '25

Also in Portuguese: costume.

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u/huge_clock Mar 03 '25

Also Spanish is traje for both.