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Definition of Attire
1. Noun. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion. "Battle dress"
Specialized synonyms: Ao Dai, Costume, Costume, Costume, Costume, Disguise, Ecclesiastical Attire, Ecclesiastical Robe, Finery, Evening Clothes, Evening Dress, Eveningwear, Formalwear, Habit, Habit, Riding Habit, False Hair, Hairpiece, Postiche, Morning Dress, Getup, Outfit, Rig, Turnout, Activewear, Athletic Wear, Sportswear
Generic synonyms: Article Of Clothing, Clothing, Habiliment, Vesture, Wear, Wearable
Derivative terms: Dress, Dressy, Garb
2. Verb. Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive. "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
Specialized synonyms: Dress, Plume, Preen, Primp, Prank, Tart Up, Enrobe, Bedizen, Dizen
Related verbs: Dress, Dress Up, Costume, Dress Up
Generic synonyms: Dress, Get Dressed
Also: Dress
Antonyms: Dress Down, Underdress
Derivative terms: Getup, Rigout
Definition of Attire
1. v. t. To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
2. n. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Definition of Attire
1. Noun. One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes. ¹
2. Noun. (heraldiccharge) The single horn of a deer or stag. ¹
3. Verb. To dress or garb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attire
1. to clothe [v -TIRED, -TIRING, -TIRES] - See also: clothe
Medical Definition of Attire
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1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; especially, 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.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Attire
Literary usage of Attire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"CHAPTER VII OF OUR APPAREL AND attire [1577, Book III., Chapter 2; 1587, Book
II., Chapter 7.] AN Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of /\ our ..."
2. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"AI Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of our attire, made sundry platforms
for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"... MY LOVE in her attire doth shew her wit. It doth so well become her: For every
season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring, and summer. ..."
4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... in place of the Golden City's skirting sand hills and the placid bay, I saw
on the one side a frame-work of tall, FASHIONABLE attire. ..."
5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"Christian attire. Pending which operation, and his morning ablutions, and his
anointing of himself with the last infallible preparation for the production ..."
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