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Meaning of 'attire' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Attire [ n.]
- Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
- The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
- The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
2 . Attire [ v. t.]
- To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

Meaning of 'attire' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . attire [ n]
Meaning (1):
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
Example in sentence:
  • battle dress;
  • formal attire
2 . attire [ v]
Meaning (2):
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Example in sentence:
  • She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera;
  • The young girls were all fancied up for the party

Nearby Words:

attabal attacca attach attachable attache attached attaching attachment attack attackable

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