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[ US /əˈtaɪɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɐtˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
VERB
  1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
NOUN
  1. clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
    battle dress
    formal attire

How To Use attire In A Sentence

  • T he swimmer who brought the Boat Race to a halt exchanged his wetsuit for more formal attire when he appeared in court yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Low price Christianity Lu the cloth give is gorgeous, Ugg Classic Short, sexy, and exert everything to attire to have a liking for to is hard to believe.
  • That they are gaining headlines for their attire will seem a case of commercial savvy and female empowerment. Times, Sunday Times
  • We continue to hear about facilities that home launder their surgical scrub attire.
  • Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds. Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
  • The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  • In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire. Times, Sunday Times
  • he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire
  • In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
  • She instantly regretted giving up her beautiful, loose robe for such whorish attire.
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