attire
verb (used with object)
to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
have attired
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present perfectof attire.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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When the performances are over, and I have attired myself in the costume of the country, I join my friends in the front of the house.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
The total absence of Jane Lauderdale, either in the bonnet and black of East Sixty-third Street or in the modish morning frock which might have attired her dual self, decided his next move.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
At all events, it was almost past the belief of all that Ivan Nikiforovitch could, in so brief a space of time, have attired himself like a respectable gentleman.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
When living persons come together and have attired themselves beautifully, it is for the interchange of what is best in them, not for the spilling of gall and the raising of a hubbub.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
We have attired his temple with the robe of forgiveness and adorned his head with the crown of pardon.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
