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Attired   /ətˈaɪrd/   Listen
Attired

adjective
1.
Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination.  Synonyms: appareled, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed.  "Neatly dressed workers" , "Monks garbed in hooded robes" , "Went about oddly garmented" , "Professors robed in crimson" , "Tuxedo-attired gentlemen" , "Crimson-robed Harvard professors"



Attire

verb
(past & past part. attired; pres. part. attiring)
1.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"



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"Attired" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the open the latter could see that his companion was dressed in an altogether different garb to that in which he had before seen him, being attired as a person of some rank and importance. He stopped presently for Bathurst to ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty

... men began hay-harvest, and one day, somewhat before midsummer, Thorbiorn Oxmain rode to Biarg, he was so attired that he had a helm on his head, and was girt with a sword, and had a spear in his hand. A barbed spear it was, and ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris

... it is no tiger-cat; it is LORD LOAM crawling on his hands and knees, a very exhausted and dishevelled peer, wondrously attired in rags. The girls see him, and with glad cries rush into ...
— The Admirable Crichton • J. M. Barrie

... upon the border of the green carpet, in company with a great many other gentlemen, attired in black (no other passport is necessary), and stood there at my ease, during the performance of Mass. The singers were in a crib of wirework (like a large meat- safe or bird-cage) in one corner; and sang most atrociously. All about the green carpet, there ...
— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

... to draw back and go out through the kitchen, but the glances of the two girls met, Peggy's in instant recognition. And so Beth tilted her chin and walked down the steps just beside the machine, aware of an elegantly attired lady with a doll-like prettiness who sat beside Peggy, oblivious of the sharp invisible daggers which shot from eye ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs


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