Hypertext Webster Gateway: "attire"
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.
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; [`a] (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger.
origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziar[=i], 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.
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From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
attire
n : clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
[syn: {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" [syn: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck up},
{gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick
out}, {prink}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out},
{overdress}] [ant: {dress down}]
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