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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Attire \At*tire"\, noun
1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
Earth in her rich attire. --Milton.
I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. --Shak.
Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? --Jer. ii. 32.
2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] --Johnson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Attire \At*tire"\, verb (used with an object) [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[=i], G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. {Tire} a headdress.] To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
Finely attired in a robe of white. --Shak.
With the linen miter shall he be attired. --Lev. xvi. 4.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
attire
noun: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: {garb}, {dress}]
verb: 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: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck up}, {gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick out}, {prink}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out}, {overdress}] [ant: {dress down}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "attire": accouter, apparel, appoint, arm, array, bedeck, bedizenment, bedrape, bundle up, clad, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, deck, dight, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, dud, duds, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equip, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habilitate, habit, invest, investiture, investment, lap, linen, muffle up, outfit, rag out, rags, raiment, robe, robes, sheathe, shroud, sportswear, style, swaddle, swathe, things, threads, tire, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, wrap, wrap up
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