kigurumi

kigurumi (ki-guh-ROO-mee) - n., a full-body costume of a mascot or cartoon character; full-body cosplay of a human cartoon character with realistic proportions paired with an anime-style mask, or sometimes just the mask itself; a set of onesie pajamas of a cartoon animal.


All three types of costumes, and the word itself, come from Japan -- when I jotted the word in my queue, I was thinking of the last:


Thanks, WikiMedia!

From Japanese, where it's usually written 着ぐるみ, from ki, clothes/wear + -gurumi, all over/complete.

---L.