“attiring” is a form of
attire
/əˈtaɪɚ/ noun, verb
Forms attires attiring attired
- noun (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes. “He was wearing his formal attire.”
- noun (heraldry) The single horn of a goat, deer or stag.
- verb (transitive) To clothe or adorn. “We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.”
Synonyms
dight don dress garb overdress dress up fig out fig up deck up gussy up fancy up trick up deck out trick out prink get up rig out tog up tog out
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).
The noun is from Middle English atir, from the verb.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
- noun Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
- noun The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
Etymology [OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; à (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziari, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “attire”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details