Dictionary entry

Attire (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

At‐tire″, n. 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

Earth in her rich attire.

Milton.

I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire.

Shak.

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire?

Jer. ii. 32.

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. Johnson.