Attire meaning

Noun: attire

Pronunciation: (u’tI(-u)r)

Attire meaning: Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion. Synonyms: dress, garb

Verb: attire

Attire meaning: Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive. Synonyms: deck out, deck up, doll up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, overdress, prink

Quotations: Laura McDowell – For men, unless it’s a pretty casual affair, it’s usually best to leave the shorts at home. And while there are many nice dress sandals for men, most of them don’t go with business casual or formal attire. Of course, you can always check with your employer about the dress-code policies to see if dress sandals are ok to wear.

David Stern – Now, it’s a much more casual approach. But our referees are always attired a certain way based upon their job description when they come into the building. Our coaches are attired a certain way when they come on the court. We decided that it was time for the players.

Jon Barry – That better not happen, I’ll be fighting that one to the end. I agree if you’re on the floor, if you’re injured or inactive, absolutely no jeans is fine. You should look businesslike. Whatever. but when we play in L.A. and get on a flight at 1 o’clock in the morning, fly home, get in our car at the private terminal where no one sees you, I don’t think we should have to be in business attire.

Joshua B. Bolten – Here we are at a Washington dinner hall, everybody dressed in formal attire, lots of politicians and political appointees, and not a single one of the politicians and political appointees is getting an award. It’s going to the people who really deserve it.

Larry Rosen – Bay Street has changed and so has the attitude towards dressing, so we took this into consideration as we designed this new store. The modern Bay Street executive wants more than just formal business attire in their wardrobe.

Geoffrey Perrett – Before the First World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire.

Sample sentences:

1. Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
2. I think our guys are consistently well attired and represent this game spectacularly across the country.
3. Some of them will be dressed as dance-hall gals, like the gals that came west. Some of them will be in Western attire.
4. Teachers have the right to determine what is professional and appropriate attire. And anyone who supports that right should wear a pin.
5. The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
6. Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
7. It’s hard to let go of some of the attire. I didn’t want to at their age.
8. Once we started, we couldn’t really stop because people really got into it. We try to put something together that has a musical angle, food angle and even attire so you can dress up for it.
9. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
10. Prom attire is encouraged, but not necessary.