From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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[imac], G. zier, ornament,
zieren to adorn. Cf. {Tire} a headdress.]
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or
splendid garments.
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Finely attired in a robe of white. --Shak.
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With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi.
4.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Attire \At*tire"\, n.
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or
adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
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Earth in her rich attire. --Milton.
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I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak.
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Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her
attire? --Jer. ii. 32.
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2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
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3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the
calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
attire
n 1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular
occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: {attire},
{garb}, {dress}]
v 1: 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: {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}] [ant: {dress down}, {underdress}]
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