Definition: attire

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
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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