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▪ I. attire, v.1|əˈtaɪə(r)|
Forms: 3–5 atire, 4–6 atyre, 6–7 attyre, 4– attire. See also aphet. tire v.2
[a. OF. atire-r, earlier atirier to arrange, put into order, array, equip, dress, deck, cogn. w. Pr. atieirar, formed on the phrase a tieira, OF. à tire ‘into row or order,’ f. Pr. tieira (teira, tiera), It. tiera, OF. tire (tiere), row, rank, order, series, suite, train; of uncertain origin: see tier.
(See article by H. Nicol in Trans. Philol. Soc. (Proc. 19 Dec. 1879). Connexion with OHG. ziarí ‘beauty, adornment,’ is still doubtful.)]
†1. To put in order, put to rights. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 10 Into þe waise þam fro he tombled top ouer taile. His knyghtis vp him lyft, and did him eft atire. c1400Destr. Troy v. 2013 Þai..knitten vp þe saile, Atyrit þe tacle.
†2. To prepare, equip, fit out. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 207 What dos þe Kyng of France? atires him gode nauie [Langtoft, attyre sa navye]. a1440Ipomydon 535 Turnementis atyred in the felde, a M. armed with spere and shelde.
†3. To equip (the person, a horse):
a. for war: To arm. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. 547 & newe kniȝtes made, & armede & attired hom, & hor bedes ȝerne bade. c1400Destr. Troy vii. 2995 A palfray of prise, prudly atyrit. 1593Drayton Ecl. iv. 99 That did streight Limbs in stubborn Steele attire.
b. with dress or clothing: To dress, adorn, array. (Now only literary, and chiefly refl. and pass.)
c1350Will. Palerne 1705 Sche..borwed boiȝes cloþes & talliche hire a-tyred tiȝtli þerinne. a1450Knt. de la Tour cviii. 145 And atyred hem selff with thaire riche and fresshe atyre. 1526Tindale 1 Pet. iii. 5 After this manner in the olde tyme did the wholy wemen..tyre them selves. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. iv. 109 It will hang vpon my richest Robes, And shew it selfe, attyre me how I can. 1699Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 69 His shoulders large a mantle did attire. 1859Tennyson Enid 770 To greet her thus attired.
c. To dress (the head, mostly of women). arch.
c1400Destr. Troy vii. 3026 The here atiret in tressis trusset full faire. 1595Spenser Amoretti xxxvii, Her golden tresses, She doth attyre vnder a net of gold. 1611Bible 2 Kings ix. 30 Shee painted her face, and tyred her head, and looked out at a window. 1859Tennyson Enid 62 This too the women who attired her head..Told Enid.
†4. To ‘dress’ venison for food. Obs.
c1320Sir Tristr. i. xliii, Yond lith a best unflain, Atire it as thou wold.
▪ II. † aˈttire, v.2 Obs.
[a. F. attire-r, f. à to + tirer to draw.]
To draw to itself, attract.
1549Chaloner Erasm. Moriæ Enc. T ij b, The myght of God..ravisheth and attyreth all thyngs to itself.
▪ III. attire, n.|əˈtaɪə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 atyr, 4–7 atir(e, atier, 5–6 atyre, 6–7 attyre, 4– attire.
[f. attire v.1]
(With the senses cf. apparel, array.)
†1. Equipment of man or horse, outfit for war.
1250Lay. 3275 Mid his fourti cniþtes, and hire hors and hire atyr. c1350Will. Palerne 1147 Alle tristy atir þat to batayle longed. c1440Sir Isumb. 413 Alle the atyre that felle to a knyghte.
†2. Personal adornment, or decoration; ‘get up.’ Also (with pl.) an ornament. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xxiii. 40 Ourned with wommans atyre [Vulg. mundo muliebri]. 1568Bible (Bishops') Isa. iii. 18 The gorgiousnesse of y⊇ attyre about their feete. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Lib. iv. vi. 240 Dressings, bracelets, and attires. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. i. 358 Commonly known by her whorish attire: As crisping and curling.
3. Dress, apparel.
c1300K. Alis. 173 Ladies and damoselis..In faire atire. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 15 To telle of hure atyre · no tyme haue ich nouth. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. Pref. A iij b, Having neither house to shroude them in, nor attyre to clothe their backes. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. i. 53 And do you now put on your best attyre? And do you now cull out a Holyday? 1767Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. I. ii. 73 They plead religious principles for the form of their attire. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 62 The most conspicuous article in her attire was an ample checkered linen apron.
†b. (with pl.) A dress. Obs.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 130/1 Awaie with his English attires, and on with his brogs, his shirt and other Irish rags. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxix. §5 Threescore and seuen Attires of Priests. 1787F. Burney in Diary & Lett. III. 367 Two new attires, one half, the other full dressed.
†4. Head-dress, head-gear; spec. (in 16–17th c.) a head-dress of women. Also aphet. tire. Obs. (In this sense fancifully connected with tiara.)
c1380Sir Ferumb. 3704 Helm & heued wyþ al þe atyre In-to þe feld it fleȝ. 1483Cath. Angl., Atyre of þ⊇ hede, tiara. 1530Palsgr. 195/2 Atyre for a gentilwomans heed, atour. 1583Babington Commandm. (1590) 275 The bracelets and the bonets, the attires of the head and the slops, the headbands, etc. 1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 37 These Attyre-makers that within these forty yeares were not knowne by that name, and but nowe very lately they kept their lowzie commoditie of periwygs, and their other monstrous attyres, closed in boxes, they might not be seene in open show.
5. Venery and Her. The ‘head-gear’ of a deer.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 52 He renueth his attire euerie year. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., The Heralds call the Horns of a Stag or Buck his Attire. 1736Dale in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 384 The Present which I herewith make you, is the Head, or rather the Attire (as it is called in Heraldry) of the Moose-Deer. 1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 211 The terms for the attire of a Buck, according to the old woodmen, are the bur, the beam, the brow-antlier, the back-antlier, the advancer, palm, and spellers or spillers.
†6. The furniture (of a house). Obs.
c1325Metr. Hom. 86 A pouer hous was son purvaide, And pouer atir tharin was layde.
7. fig. The plants which clothe and deck the earth; the covering of animals, esp. when beautiful; the external surroundings, ‘apparel’ or ‘garb’ of anything immaterial.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. x. 148 Choisest attires of the Garden. 1647Cowley Mistr. Weeping i, Let not ill Fortune see Th' attire thy sorrow wears. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 501 Earth in her rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iv. iii, Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire..They coiled and swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
†8. In plants: The name given by Grew to the parts within the floral leaves or corolla, especially the stamens (seminiform attire), and the florets of the disk in Composite flowers (florid attire). Obs.
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. v. (1682) 35 The Flower. The general parts whereof are most commonly three; sc. the Empalement, the Foliation, and the Attire. Ibid. 37 The Attire, I find to be of two kinds, Seminiforme and Florid. 1676Ibid. iv. ii. i. §3 In all Flowers with the Florid Attire, as of Marigold, Daisy and the like. 1725in Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. 1751in Chambers Cycl. s.v. [from Grew]. |