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3 definitions found 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. 4. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: attire n : dress of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion [syn: {garb}, {dress}] v : put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive [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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