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attire noun [ əˈtʌɪə ]

• clothes, especially fine or formal ones.
• "the usually sober attire of British security service personnel"
Similar: clothing, clothes, garments, dress, wear, outfit, turnout, garb, ensemble, costume, array, finery, regalia, wardrobe, accoutrements, trappings, kit, strip, gear, togs, garms, duds, glad rags, get-up, clobber, rig-out, threads, apparel, raiment, habiliments, habit, vestments,

attire verb

• be dressed in clothes of a specified kind.
• "Lady Agatha was attired in an elaborate evening gown"
Similar: dress, clothe, dress up, fit out, garb, robe, array, deck, deck out, turn out, trick out, trick up, costume, accoutre, drape, swathe, adorn, doll up, get up, rig out, apparel, bedizen, caparison, furbelow, invest, habit, trap out, dressed, clothed, dressed up, fitted out, garbed, arrayed, decked out, turned out, tricked up, costumed, dolled up, got up, got out, rigged out, apparelled, invested, habited, trapped out,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French atirier, atirer ‘equip’, from a tire ‘in order’, of unknown origin.


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