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English Dictionary: attire	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for attire
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
attire n clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" Synonym(s): attire, garb, dress v 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" Synonym(s): overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out Antonym(s): dress down, underdress
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attire \At*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Attiring}.] [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; [85] (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziar[c6], 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. --Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi. 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attire \At*tire"\, n. 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. --Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak. 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. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] --Johnson.