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Attire   /ətˈaɪər/   Listen
noun
Attire  n.  
1.
Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. "Earth in her rich attire." "I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire." "Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire?"
2.
The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3.
(Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. (Obs.)


verb
Attire  v. t.  (past & past part. attired; pres. part. attiring)  To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. "Finely attired in a robe of white." "With the linen miter shall he be attired."





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"Attire" Quotes from Famous Books



... bearing, his simple yet rich attire and his splendid mount, he looked every inch ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... paint and tinsel and silk attire, of cheap sentiment and high and mighty dialogue! Will there not always be rosin enough for ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... not His crib, His wooden dish, Nor beast that by Him feed; Weigh not His mother's poor attire, ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... takes alarm; one does not surrender oneself to a political butcher without repugnance. The Revolution demands another interpreter, like itself captivatingly fitted out, and Robespierre fits the bill,[3181] with his irreproachable attire, well-powdered hair, carefully brushed coat,[3182] strict habits, dogmatic tone, and formal, studied manner of speaking. No mind, in its mediocrity and incompetence, so well harmonizes with the spirit of the epoch. ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 3 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... You cannot very well go in that attire," the captain said, smiling. "I shall be glad to advance any sum that you may require to procure clothes. You can, no doubt, pay me on your ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty


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