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Attire   /ətˈaɪər/   Listen
Attire

noun
1.
Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.  Synonyms: dress, garb.  "Battle dress"
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"  Antonyms: dress down, underdress.



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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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