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ATTIRE
attire, garb, dress
(noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; āformal attireā; ābattle dressā
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
(verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; āShe never dresses up, even when she goes to the operaā; āThe young girls were all fancied up for the partyā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
attire (countable and uncountable, plural attires)
(clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
(heraldiccharge) The single horn of a deer or stag.
Verb
attire (third-person singular simple present attires, present participle attiring, simple past and past participle attired)
(transitive) To clothe or adorn.
Synonyms
• dight, don, dress; see also clothe
Anagrams
• aettir, ratite
Source: Wiktionary
At*tire", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attired; p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring.] Etym: [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; Ć (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziari, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]
Definition: 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.
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.)
Definition: The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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