attire
Noun · VerbUS[uh-tahy-er]/əˈtaɪɚ/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion“formal attire”“battle dress”Synonyms: garbdressType of clothing, article of clothingKinds costume, habit, outfit, disguise, formalwear, ao dai, hairpiece, ecclesiastical attire, morning dress, finery +1 more
Verb (1)attired, attiring
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive“She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”“The young girls were all fancied up for the party”Synonyms: overdressdress upfig outfig updeck upgussy upfancy uptrick updeck outtrick outprinkget uprig outtog uptog outMore general dress, get dressedMore specific preen, prank, bedizen, enrobe, tart upSimilar dress, costume
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
At·tire′ (…), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Attired (…); present participle & verbal noun Attiring.]
Origin: OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; à (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziarī, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Finely attired in a robe of white.— William Shakespeare
With the linen miter shall he be attired.— Lev. xvi. 4.
At·tire′ noun
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich attire.— John Milton
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire.— William Shakespeare
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire?— Jer. ii. 32.
2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. Botany The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. obsolete Dr. Samuel Johnson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54