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attiring, vbl. n.|əˈtaɪərɪŋ|
[f. attire v.]
1. The action of fitting out, accoutring, dressing, apparelling.
c1350Will. Palerne 1941 For [to] telle þe a-tiryng of þat child þat time. 1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 26 This strange atiring of themselues. 1678Phillips, Attiring, a dressing, or apparrelling, from Tiara, a Persian ornament for the Head. 1836Chamb. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 217 A certain smartness in the attiring of the neck.
2. a. Dress, apparel, trappings of a horse. b. Head-dress. c. Personal ornament. d. fig.
1552Huloet, Attirings yt gentilwomen weare on their heades, Ridemicula. 1583Stanyhurst æneid iii. (Arb.) 89 Thee Troian atyring And Troian weapons. 1596Drayton Legends i. 123 Putting her rich Gems and attyrings on. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 697 The exoticke forme of their attiring. 1859W. Gregory Egypt in 1855–6 I. 33 Dromedaries, with their leopard-skin attirings.
3. The ‘attire’ of a stag or deer.
1678Phillips, Attiring, a term of Heraldry. Also among Hunters the Branching Horns. 1742Bailey, Attiring, the branching Horns of a Buck.
4. Comb. † attiring-house, -room (obs.) = tiring-house, -room, the room or place where players attire or dress themselves for the stage; attiring-room, also a dressing-room, generally.
1647J. Birkenhead Assembly-Man in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 94/1 This Assembly is the two Houses Attiring-room, where the Lords and Commons put on their Vizards and Masks of Religion. 1656Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. v. 645/1 Follow stage-players into their attiring-house. a1661Fuller Life H. Smith in Smith's Wks. (1866) I. 7 As few did take notice of their coming out of their attiring-house, so their well acting on the stage commanded all eyes to observe their returning thereunto. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 346 Fit houses..furnished with warm stoves, and attiring rooms. |