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单词 attire
释义

attire

/əˈtʌɪə /
formal or literary
noun [mass noun]
Clothes, especially fine or formal ones: the usually sober attire of British security service personnel...
  • To each of these outings they were expected to wear formal attire including hat and gloves.
  • The waiters too would be dressed in traditional attire.
  • He was standing right there in surprisingly normal attire: a black shirt and jeans.

Synonyms

clothing, clothes, garments, dress, wear, outfit, turnout, garb, ensemble, costume, array, finery, regalia;
wardrobe, accoutrements, trappings;
British kit, strip
informal gear, togs, garms, duds, glad rags, get-up
British informal clobber, rig-out
North American informal threads
formal apparel
archaic raiment, habiliments, habit, vestments
verb (be attired)
Be dressed in clothes of a specified kind: Lady Agatha was attired in an elaborate evening gown (as adjective, with submodifier attired) stylishly attired teenagers in stonewashed jeans...
  • They are seen attired in clothes of bright and varied hues.
  • The shop staff are attired in black dresses with old fashioned white starched aprons.
  • The advisor was attired in full dress regalia with a sidearm on his hip.

Synonyms

dress, clothe, dress up, fit out, garb, robe, array, deck, deck out, turn out, trick out, trick up, costume, accoutre;
drape, swathe, adorn
informal doll up, get up
British informal rig out
formal apparel
literary bedizen, caparison, furbelow
archaic invest, habit, trap out
dressed, clothed, dressed up, fitted out, garbed, arrayed, decked out, turned out, tricked up, costumed
informal dolled up, got up, got out
British informal rigged out
archaic apparelled, invested, habited, trapped out

Origin

Middle English: from Old French atirier, atirer 'equip', from a tire 'in order', of unknown origin.

  • tyre from Late Middle English:

    In the past wheelwrights strengthened the outside of the wheels of carts with curved pieces of iron plate called the tire, probably a shortened form of attire (an ME word originally meaning to put in order), because the tyre was the ‘clothing’ of the wheel. Originally the spellings tire and tyre were interchangeable, but in the 17th century tire became the settled spelling, which has remained the spelling in the USA. In Britain the development of the pneumatic tyre seemed to require some differentiation from the metal rim, and tyre was revived.

Rhymes

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