What does "attire" mean?
Attire: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.2. 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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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