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Attire Meaning ə'Taɪər Queen Attired Blue Birthday Party

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Pron [ə'taɪər]
Back 【ATTIRE】
The queen was attired in blue for her birthday party.
皇后身穿蓝色服装参加她的生日宴会。
【重点词汇】
attire n. 服装 v. 穿衣 同: array
Vocab
attireclothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

The noun attire is just a formal way to say "outfit." And if you’re going outside in the middle of a blizzard, your attire should include more than a bathing suit and flip-flops.

Attire can also refer to the antlers of a deer, but that’s a pretty obscure definition. So let's stick to the more common uses: put it into verb form and it means "to dress or clothe." Which makes sense, since it comes to us from the Old French atirier, meaning “to equip, ready or prepare.” Charles Dickens wrote that “Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire" — meaning the clothes do not make the man.

All forms of 'attire' will appear on average once every 520 pages.
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