attire
verb (used with object)
to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
well-attired
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a word derived from
attire.
Example Sentences
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Much will look the same as always when well-attired celebrities gather at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom in Los Angeles.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
The shores around were lined with peering faces and a well-attired throng; the bosom of the stream was agreeably dotted with numerous row-boats, freighted with living loads, passing and repassing in a diversity of tracks.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 by Robert Chambers
And still further on, the well-attired gentleman prostrates himself with the ragged beggar in worshipping the same common and universal God!
From Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 by Albert James Pickett
While in "Lycidas" he tells of— "The Musk Rose and the well-attired Woodbine."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
For true it was that Giles Winterborne, well-attired and well-mannered as he was for a yeoman, looked rough beside her.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
