Attire
verb
Third-person singular simple present: attires
Indicative past, past participle: attired
Present participle: attiring
Etymology: from Old French atirier (= to arrange, array, dress), which is from tire, an obsolete French word for row, rank. The English noun tier (rank, row) is also from this obsolete French tire.
Words derived from attire: attire (noun), attired, attiring
Transitively:
To adorn (a person) with a attire, dress, or apparel; this is, to take on (something intended more for the sake of flaunting it, or of complying with some requirement, than of protecting the body)
Approximate equivalents: vestire, in Italian; vestir, in Spanish; habiller, vêtir, in French.
Synonyms: to array, clothe, garment, robe
Antonyms: undress, disrobe, unclothe, strip, bare, denude, divest, nude.
They attired me for the coffin - three or four dark figures which flitted busily to and fro. As these crossed the direct line of my vision they affected me as forms; but upon passing to my side their images impressed me with the idea of shrieks, groans, and other dismal expressions of terror, of horror, or of wo.
Edgar Allan Poe
***It is chiefly used both in the passive and the reflexive mode:
[…] travel-stained though he was, he was well and even richly attired, and without being overdressed looked a gallant gentleman.
Charles Dickens (Barnaby Rudge)
The Captain being at length attired to his own complete satisfaction, and having glanced at himself from head to foot in a shaving-glass which he removed from a nail for that purpose, took up his knotted stick, and said he was ready.
Dombey And Son by Charles Dickens
From his chain, hung a scutcheon; with metal and color, resplendent upon his breast, of the ancient arms of Islington. One so attired could be no mean person.
William Gardiner (Music of Nature)
They were probably attired like Robin Hood's men, to whom, indeed, they are compared in the course of the play.
Oscar Wilde (The Truth of Masks)
A young lady sat in one of the boxes; she was elegantly attired, and seemed to occupy the united attentions of many Frenchmen.
Captain Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay)
[Julia] received a message from the marquis to attend him instantly. She obeyed, and he bade her prepare to receive the duke, who that morning purposed to visit the castle. He commanded her to attire herself richly, and to welcome him with smiles.
Ann Radcliffe (A Sicilian Romance)
In Mr Toots's lodgings, Mr Toots attires himself as if he were at least the Bridegroom.
Charles Dickens (Dombey And Son)
She then hastily attired herself for walking, and leaving word that she should return within a couple of hours, hurried away towards her uncle's house.
Charles Dickens (The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby)
***With the preposition in (or with) before the word denotative of the attire:
Girls of Basutoland, South Africa, are expected to attire themselves with rings of braided grass and cowhide, and white clay rubbed on their bodies and legs. These young girls are first instructed for a period of some weeks in the details of sexual intercourse.
Floyd M. Martinson (Infant and Child Sexuality)
[The person] was long- visaged, and pale, with a red beard of above a fortnight's growth. He was attired in a brownish-black coat, which would have shewed more holes than it did, had not the linen, which appeared through it, been entirely of the same colour with the cloth.
Henry Fielding (Amelia)
Her ladyship was attired in pink crape over bed-furniture, with a low body and short sleeves.
Charles Dickens (Sketches by Boz)
He was attired, under his greatcoat, in a full suit of black
Charles Dickens (Barnaby Rudge)
In an absolute phrenzy of wrath, I turned at once upon him who had thus interrupted me, and seized him violently by tile collar. He was attired, as I had expected, in a costume altogether similar to my own; wearing a Spanish cloak of blue velvet, begirt about the waist with a crimson belt sustaining a rapier. A mask of black silk entirely covered his face.
Edgar Allan Poe
Mr Vanslyperken, attired in his full uniform, ordered his boat to be manned and pulled on board.
Captain Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay)
From the same repository she brought forth a night-jacket, in which she also attired herself.
Charles Dickens (Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit)
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