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"They were seeing themselves as individuals and set themselves apart," said Wendi Ferreira of the styling duo Wendi and Nicole, who are attiring Oyelowo, Channing Tatum and Chris Pine for the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2015

Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits.

From Time Magazine Archive

See, too, on women, “under pretence of religion, attiring themselves as men,” Sozomen, iii.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

She had been so accustomed not only to attiring herself but to going round and hooking up her sisters as well, that a woman who handled her like a baby rather paralysed her.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

Soon Etienne was alone in a comfortable cell, and was attiring his person, a duty a Norman seldom neglected; nor did he despise the luxury of a bath, to the scorn of the un-laving natives.

From The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)