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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
attire
    n 1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular
         occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire,
         garb, dress]
    v 1: 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: 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] [ant: dress down, underdress]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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[imac], G. zier, ornament,
   zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]
   To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or
   splendid garments.
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         Finely attired in a robe of white.       --Shak.
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         With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Attire \At*tire"\, n.
   1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or
      adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
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            Earth in her rich attire.             --Milton.
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            I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak.
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            Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her
            attire?                               --Jer. ii. 32.
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   2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
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   3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the
      calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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Thesaurus Results for Attire:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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