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ATTIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
Example:
crimson-robed Harvard professors
Synonyms:
appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed
Classified under:
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb attire
Context examples:
I looked: I saw a woman attired like a well-dressed servant, matronly, yet still young; very good-looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A mild-looking, cleanly-attired young woman opened the door.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
