Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dressing or decking.
- noun Attire; dress; array.
- noun Specifically A head-dress. Huloet.
- noun The attires of a stag.
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- verb Present participle of
attire .
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Examples
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It looked like some kind of attiring room, for a theatre, or perhaps sport, for horseback riding, or a gymnasium.
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It looked like some kind of attiring room, for a theatre, or perhaps sport, for horseback riding, or a gymnasium.
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Deciduous trees, "attiring" and "disattiring," are the main characters in this short poem.
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Deciduous trees, "attiring" and "disattiring," are the main characters in this short poem.
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He has decorated each one nearly identically, attiring them almost exclusively in Ralph Lauren furnishings, including leather chairs, tweed curtains, sofas and beds.
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I don't remember the agonising day I must have spent waiting, and attiring myself in a filthy sepoy uniform, so that I could pass in my old role of 3rd Cavalry mutineer.
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Also a Spanish company, Mango focuses on completely attiring the young urban woman from work to play to evening - with their own exclusive, purse-friendly designs.
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"Bes 'git yo' clo'es on, dearie;" says she, and I saw that while I'd been glued to the window and the horrors outside, she'd been attiring herself in a vast gown of dazzling green silk with yellow bows, an enormous hat with a yellow plume, and matching ribbons in her hennaed hair - you can't imagine what she looked like, luckily for you.
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Arthur had risen from his bed, and was in the act of attiring himself, when the tread of a horse arrested his attention.
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It was sometime before it was possible to gather, that having all paraded into various garrets, in search of adventures, Lionel, after attiring himself in the maid's gown, cap, and apron, had suddenly deposited upon Miss Dennel's head the Ensign's cocked hat, replacing it with the coachman's best wig upon the toupee of Macdersey; whose resentment was so violent at this liberty, that it was still some minutes before he could give it articulation.
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