[Update] Definition of Attire by Merriam-Webster | wear verb 2 – NATAVIGUIDES

Verb

men attired in tuxedos for the awards banquet

Noun

Proper attire is required at the restaurant.

needed some snazzy attire for the job interview

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

Match your golf bag and attire with your Cube CART 3 Wheel Push Pull Golf CART.

—

Chris Hachey, BGR, 21 May 2021

While general political slogans and imagery are sometimes allowed, attire explicitly promoting a candidate is banned in many states.

—

Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020

Good makes the go-to attire for dads and campers across the country.

—

Jamie Ueda, USA TODAY, 22 June 2020

The rising merchant class in Edo had money to burn and clever ways to evade restrictions on displays of wealth imposed by elaborately attired samurai warriors, who were supposed to be the top dogs.

—

Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 May 2020

Attendees, attired in highlighter yellow shirts, baseball caps and masks, laughed.

—

Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 May 2020

They were fashionably attired in baggy sweaters and jackets, ripped jeans, and chunky boots and sneakers.

—

Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020

Above the waist, Mr. Lauzurique, who works for a mental health organization, was formally attired in a blazer, button-up shirt and tie.

—

Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2020

They were fashionably attired in baggy sweaters and jackets, ripped jeans, and chunky boots and sneakers.

—

Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

In November 2019, hundreds of Black reenactors in period attire retraced the 24-mile path of the German Coast Uprising of 1811, the largest rebellion of enslaved people in American history.

—

Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021

Jose Art will be body painting models with Catrina outfits and attire.

—

Beacon-news Staff, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021

Long sleeves, dark colors, and velvet are usually what come to mind as proper attire, but this season’s options are also full of rich jewel tones, snakeskin prints, playful hemlines, and gravity-defying puffy sleeves.

—

Talia Abbas, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021

Costumes were scattered among regular attire during the three days of the festival — with some goers donning outfits all three days.

—

Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2021

The topper also features gold details with hints of lace and beading, wings made from feathers, and a plastic cone hidden beneath the angel’s attire for easy attachment to Christmas tree branches.

—

Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2021

So, as Halloween arrives amid the U.N. Climate Change Conference this year, leaders should ditch the Grim Reaper costumes and don more reasonable attire.

—

Jakob Puckett, National Review, 30 Oct. 2021

The Why While Style’s fans may be taking concert attire to new heights, this type of influence is common surrounding pop stars — especially artists who appeal to younger and female audiences, according to style expert Michelle Washington.

—

Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2021

Everyone in attendance wore traditional attire and ribbons in their hair.

—

Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘attire.’ Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Ozma, especially, made much of Dorothy’s relatives, for her little friend’s sake, and she well knew that the awkwardness and strangeness of their new mode of life would all

wear

off in time.

A woman wearing the same kind of clothes as people in other houses

wear

, told us to go up to the second floor, and she grinned at David, as if she had heard about him; so up we went, David muttering through his clenched teeth, “I sha’n’t laugh,” and as soon as we knocked a voice called out, “Here we are again!” at which a shudder passed through David as if he feared that he had set himself an impossible task.

Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could

wear

sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,–or from one of our elder poets,–in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.

“Actually I have nothing to

wear

,” began Fan impressively; “I ‘ve been too busy to think or care till now, but here it is nearly May and I have hardly a decent rag to my back.

His first half-hour is occupied in trying to decide whether to

wear

his light suit with a cane and drab billycock, or his black tails with a chimney-pot hat and his new umbrella.

And they used to

wear

hooped petticoats of such enormous size that it was quite a journey to walk round them.”

She need not

wear

it if you object, for I know we promised to let you do what you liked with the poor dear for a year.”

“Is that the dress you’re going to

wear

tonight?” asked Gilbert, looking down at the fluffs and frills.

And I want to ask you, Anne, dearie, if you think it would be all right to

wear

a veil with a navy blue dress.

Thursday was the day of the ball; and on Wednesday morning Fanny, still unable to satisfy herself as to what she ought to

wear

, determined to seek the counsel of the more enlightened, and apply to Mrs.

I must

wear

it more often than I have done of late, although it may not be the best of my collection.”

“I don’t think I like it only because it’s so pretty, but I want to

wear

it as the girl in the story wore her bracelet, to remind me of something.”