Crossword clues for attire
attire
- Things to wear
- What to wear
- What a party invitation might specify
- Mode of dress
- It suits you
- Fine apparel
- Dress code concern
- Fancy apparel
- What you've got on
- What one wears
- Suit or dress
- Something to wear
- It may be formal
- Dude's duds
- Distinctive dress
- Coat and tie, e.g
- Closet hangings
- Closet array
- What's going on?
- What you have on
- What usually goes on behind closed doors?
- The Gap inventory
- Tennis sweaters, e.g
- Tailor's wares
- T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers, for Bart Simpson
- Subject of dress codes
- Special clothing
- It's well-worn
- It can suit you
- It can be formal or informal
- Dress, for a formal, e.g
- Dress-code subject
- Dress code subject
- Dress code details
- Difference between a well-dressed bicyclist and a poorly dressed unicyclist, in a joke
- Clothes or garments
- Choice in the closet
- Garb
- Costume
- Clothes, garments
- Wearing apparel
- Duds
- Garments
- Dress-code concern
- Beau Brummell's concern
- Getup
- Deck out
- Clothing
- Togs
- Get-up
- Habiliments
- Habit
- It's worn
- Outfit
- Invitation information specification
- What goes on?
- Worn things
- Coat and tie, e.g.
- Enrobe
- Threads
- "No need to worry"
- Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- Raiment
- Finery
- Multi or uniform
- Array
- Armor, to Galahad
- Gear towards exhaust
- Clothes tear: it’s awful!
- Clothes dry in breeze (easterly)
- A lot of motorcycling has passion for gear
- Dressing right to be used amongst peeled potatoes
- It's got you covered
- What you wear
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attire \At*tire"\, n.
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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. 3 2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
(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.
4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to fit out, equip; to dress in finery, to adorn," from Old French atirier "to equip, ready, prepare," from a- "to" + tire "order, row, dress" (see tier). Related: Attired; attiring.
c.1300, "equipment of a man-at-arms; fine apparel," from attire (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes. 2 (context heraldiccharge English) The single horn of a deer or stag. vb. To dress or garb.
WordNet
n. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [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]
Usage examples of "attire".
In contrast to the austere white dress of the Archimage, the newcomer was magnificently attired in gauzy but voluminous robes of a rich crimson color, and she wore a golden collar and bracelets all studded with multicolored gem-stones.
Such, however, as he could make out were richly attired in doublets of silk and satin, while their rich velvet mantles, plumed and jewelled caps, and long rapiers, were carried by their servants.
He was attired in a close-fitting doublet of russety-brown, round yellow hose, and long stockings of the same hue.
The promoter was attired wholly in blackcloak, cap, doublet, and hose were of sable.
Magnificently attired, the Marquis of Buckingham as far outshone his companions in splendour of habiliments as he did in stateliness of carriage and beauty of person.
Instead of carrying pails as was their wont, these milkmaids, who were all very neatly attired, bore on their heads a pile of silver plate, borrowed for the occasion, arranged like a pyramid, and adorned with ribands and flowers.
Gaily attired courtiers, in doublets of satin and mantles of velvet, were lounging in the balconies of the presence-chamber, staring at Jocelyn and his companions for, want of better occupation.
Both ladies were very richly attired, and the younger of the two was by no means destitute of beauty, though of a pale and pensive character.
A grave-looking man, of a melancholy and severe aspect, and attired in a loose robe of black velvet, was seated alone in a chamber, the windows of which opened upon the Fountain Court, which we have just quitted.
He was still attired in silks and satins of the gaudiest hues, still carefully trimmed as to hair and beard, still redolent of perfumes.
The maiden was attired in deep mourning, and though looking very pale, her surpassing beauty produced a strong impression upon Sir Francis Mitchell, who instantly arose on seeing her, and made her a profound, and, as he considered, courtly salutation.
He is conversing with the Spanish Ambassador, who, like all the rest, is superbly attired, though not in armour, and is followed by a crowd of lacqueys in jerkins and hose of black satin, guarded with silver.
Behind him were some half-dozen jailers, attired in garments of dark-brown frieze, and each having a large bunch of keys at his girdle.
The latter was richly attired, but had not changed the sombre hue of his habiliments, even for the anticipated ceremonial, being clad, as usual, in black.
This person was attired in black, with a broad-leaved hat pulled down over his brows.