Attire

Definition: Attire

Attire

Noun

1. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.

Verb

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Attire \At*tire"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Attired; Attiring.]. (references)

Synonyms: Attire

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes.

Crosswords: Attire

French (attracts).

And see that he puts on some decent attire. (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

In Bridal Attire (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Boutique Attire (reference)

• Community law in the French courts The law of treaties in modern attire (reference)

• How to Win Over the Stranger You've Just Met Vol. III: How To: Create the Right Image by Your Attire and Grooming, Small-Talk and Converse, Display In (reference)

• Minister to minister : a manual for New Age ministers : alternative ceremonies for all occasions : ceremonies, ethical guidelines, attire (reference)

• Mountain Charley: Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire (Western Frontier Library, Vol 40) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ordinary attire of men on the killing ground And of women and young children in the village Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Stands by his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had alighted on a warship. Pennsylvania was then at anchor in San Francisco Bay, California. Note the light emergency floats under the plane's lower wings and Ely's flying attire, including rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. The hooks on the bottom of the plane's undercarriage were used to catch lines placed across the ship's landing platform in order to bring the aircraft to a stop. Credit: NAVY.

Seated in his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had landed on a warship. Note Ely's flying attire, including a leather helmet and rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. Credit: NAVY.

Couple in Colonial attire in front of plantation house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three ladies in early 1800's attire, flanked by ribboned miniatures of two ladies. Credit: Library of Congress.

Past, present, and future beach attire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Elderly couple, in formal attire, dozing while riding the subway] / P. Darlow [i.e., Barlow]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles M. Russell, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in western attire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Westmoreland Davis, master of the Leesburg Hunt, head-and-shoulders portrait, looking slightly left, in riding attire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodward Avenue in winter attire, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The U.S. is known for durable, reasonably priced, high quality attire. (references)

Argentine clothing preferences have traditionally leaned toward European-based design; however, American clothing is generally accepted for its good price/quality ratio and in the casual and sports apparel sector, U.S. suppliers should do well. Adolescents have taken a strong liking to comfortable, loose fitting casual wear whereas adults are more inclined to elegant casual attire. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

For example, NLFT tribal insurgents have prohibited Hindu and Muslim festivals in areas that they control, cautioned women not to wear traditional Hindu tribal attire, and prohibited indigenous forms of worship. (references)

Tanzania

Muslim groups report that subsequently they were allowed to challenge and overturn the bans through use of the judicial system, which ruled that certain traditional religious attire (such as hijaab headdress) was permitted by law in all public schools. (references)

China

The official Xinjiang Daily reported that Yining county early in 2000 reviewed the activities of 420 mosques and implemented a system of linking ethnic cadres to mosques in order to improve vigilance against "illegal religious activities." The authorities also initiated a campaign to discourage overt religious attire such as veils and to discourage religious marriage ceremonies. (references)

Human Rights

East Timor

Nonetheless by year's end, peacekeepers had not killed any suspected militia members operating within East Timor, although in July one Indonesian soldier, dressed in civilian attire, was killed in West Timor by UN-PKF forces based in East Timor after he reportedly fired across the border. (references)

Political Economy

East Timor

One Indonesian soldier, dressed in civilian attire, was killed by UN-PKF in July after he reportedly fired across the border into East Timor. (references)

Travel

France

Professional attire is expected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "attire": ecclesiastical attire ♦ festive attire ♦ in festival attire ♦ in scant attire. Additional references.

Ending with "attire": night-attire.

Albanian

veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear), vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), stoli (bauble, ornaments, trimmings), petk (array, dressy, habiliment, habit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسوة (apparel, clothes, clothing, feather, garments, livery, panoply, vesture), ‏كسا (array, cake, clothe, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏ملابس (apparel, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, toggery, togs, wear), ‏لبس (array, clothe, dress, get dressed, panel, robe, tog, vest, wear, wore, worn), ‏لباس فاخر, ‏رداء فاخرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

облекло (apparel, array, clothes, clothing, dress, dressing, fig, garb, garments, investment, livery, rig, rigging, tog, trim, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), обличам (accouter, accoutre, clothe, coat, deck, dress, dress up, endue, garb, garment, get on, gird, habit, invest, pull on, pull over, put on, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), одеяние (garb, guise, raiment, vesture), премяна (accoutrements, apparel, best bib and tucker, dress, fig, finery, get up, glad rags, livery, one's best tucker, tire). (various references)

Chinese 

服装 (Costume, garment). (various references)

Czech

roucho (apparel, raiment, robe, vestment, vesture), odívat, odìv (array, clothes, clothing, garb, garment, habiliment, habiliments, vest, wear). (various references)

Farsi 

لباس پوشاندن (Able), لباس (Clobber, Clothing, Costume, Dress, Garb, Thing, Vest, Vestment), ارایش کردن (Embellish, Manicure), ارایش (Array, Decor, Garnish, Muster, Order, Polish, Toilet), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim). (various references)

Finnish

ym (apparel, dilate, garb). (various references)

French

vêtir, vêtement, tenue. (various references)

German

kleiden (clothe, couch, dress, endue, suit), bekleiden (bestow, clothe, cover, dress, endue, fill, hold, occupy, take, vest). (various references)

Greek 

στολίζω (adorn, array, beautify, bespangle, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), ιματισμόσ (apparel, clothing, habiliments, rig, toilet, toilette), ντύσιμο (rig out), ενδύω (accoutre, clothe, costume, dress, endue, garb, invest, rig, robe, vasty, vest), ενδυμασία (costume, dress, garb, gear, guise, habit, raiment, suit, suit of clothes, vesture), αμφίεση (apparel, guise). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלבוש (dress, garment, livery, vestment). (various references)

Hungarian

ruházat (apparel, clothes, clothing, raiment, trim, vesture, weed). (various references)

Indonesian

pakaian (costume, dress, garb, garment, vestiture, vestment, vesture, wear), berpakaian. (various references)

Irish

gléasta. (various references)

Italian

abbigliare (accoutre, dress, rig out, wear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

服飾 (clothing and accessories). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふくしょく (clothing and accessories, reappointment, reinstatement, side dish, supplementary food). (various references)

Korean 

옷차림. (various references)

Manx

cur mysh (clothe, don, draw on, dress). (various references)

Pig Latin

attireay.(various references)

Portuguese

adorno (adornment, braid, embroidery, facing, finery, finesse, garniture, ornament, set-off, tire), adornar (adorn, bedeck, bejewel, blazon, decorate, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, prank, purl, set), vestuário (apparel, attirement, clothes, clothing, come-off, costume, ensemble, fig, garment, get-up, investiture, put-off, raiment, stalking-horse, tog, toggery, vestment, vesture), vestir (accoutre, apparel, clothe, costume, cover, don, dress, endue, enrobe, garb, habit, invest, put on, robe, to dress, vesture, wear), ornar (accoutre, foil, ornament, primp), chifres de veado. (various references)

Romanian

veşminte (apparel, array, clothes, gown, guise, habit, ornament), gãti (caparison, cook, doll, dress, end, fig out, prank, preen, prepare, rig, Spruce, trim), îmbrãcãminte (accoutrement, carpet, clothes, clothing, dress, fig, garb, garment, gear, plank, rig, toggery, toilet, wear), îmbrãca (accoutre, array, do on, draw on, dress, enclothe, endue, equip, garb, habit, protect, put on, vest, wear, wore), ţinutã (attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, clothing, conduct, deportment, figure, gait, garb, hang, manner, mien, posture, rig, set, suit, trim, uniform). (various references)

Russian 

убор, оленьи рога, одевать наряд одетый, наряжать (bedizen, doll up, dress, dress up, prink), наряд (array, detail, fig, finery, garb, getup, police, rig). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svečana odora, ruho (vesture), obući se svečano. (various references)

Spanish

atavío (apparel, array, dress, gear, getup, rig out, toilet, toilette). (various references)

Swedish

klädsel (clothes, clothing, dress, upholstery). (various references)

Thai

แต่งกาย (apparel, array, cover), เครื่องแต่งกาย (array, costume, dress). (various references)

Turkish

süs (adornment, apparel, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), kıyafet (apparel, caparison, costume, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, habit, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), kılık (apparel, appearance, dress, garb, guise, Jersey), giysi (apparel, caparison, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, guise, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, vesture, wear), giydirmek (array, clothe, doll out, doll up, Don, dress, enrobe, equip, garb, invest, revet, rig out, robe, turn out, vesture), elbise (apparel, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, gown, habit, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, wear), donatmak (arm, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out). (various references)

Ukrainian

убрання (apparel, array, caparison, cloth, clothes, costume, decoration, dress, feather, raiment, trim, turn out, vesture), оленячі роги, одягати (apparel, array, clothe, costume, dress, enrobe, garb, gown, habit), наряджати (array, caparison, doll, prank, prink, rig out, smug), прикраса (adornment, apparel, beauty, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, pretty, quip, set off), прикашати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sừng nai, quần áo (clothing, costume, fig, habiliment, issue, period, vestiture), đồ trang điểm sừng hươu. (various references)

Welsh

trwsiad (dress), gwisgo (array, dress, wear), gwisg (apparel, array, dress, garment, robe), dilledyn (garment). (various references)

ornatus. (various references)

atirier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "attire": attired, attires. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Attire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Altyre, aotire, Ataret, atide, atie, atir, atire, atise, attage, Attard, Attearne, atterre, attice, Attiero, Attile, attine, attor, attr, attrie, atture, ature, atyr, atyre, autier, auttori, etire, Ettori, Katyrev, Otira, taire. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratite.

-1 letter: irate, retia, tater, terai, tetra, titer, titre, trait, treat, trite.

-2 letters: airt, rate, rite, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tier, tire, tret.

-3 letters: air, ait, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, ire, rat, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tat, tea, tet, tie.

-4 letters: ae, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta.

+1 letter: arietta, ariette, artiest, artiste, attired, attires, attrite, battier, biretta, cattier, citrate, fattier, intreat, iratest, iterant, iterate, nattier, nitrate, partite, ratites, rattier, striate, tastier, tattier, tertial, tertian, titrate.

+2 letters: admitter, aglitter, aigrette, amaretti, amoretti, ariettas, ariettes, aristate, artistes, artsiest, attainer, attrited, atwitter, batterie, birettas, birretta, brattice, brattier, chattier, citrated, citrates, cristate, detrital, feterita, filtrate, gnattier, hatteria, interact, intranet, intreats, irritate, iterated, iterates, laterite, literate, literati, martinet, mistreat, nitrated, nitrates, rattiest, reattain, remittal, retirant, rotative, scattier, straiten, straiter, striated, striates, tardiest, tarriest, teariest, teratism, teratoid, tertials, tertians, tertiary, tetracid, tetradic, theatric, titrable, titrated, titrates, toastier, tractile, tractive, treaties, treating, treatise, trifecta, triptane, tristate, tristeza, urticate, wartiest, ytterbia, zaratite.