| 单词 | attired |
| 释义 | attired (once / 1435 pages) adj When you're attired, you're dressed in clothing. The bride in a wedding is traditionally attired in an elaborate white gown. While you can use the adjective attired to describe anyone who's wearing clothes or accessories, it's most often used to talk about formal or elaborate clothing. Everyone at your masquerade ball might be attired in fancy costumes, and you could describe the flashily attired attendees at a high school prom. The root of attired is the Old French atirier, "to equip or prepare." WORD FAMILYattired: unattired+/attire: attired, attires, attiring USAGE EXAMPLESThe expensively attired characters in this book and its predecessors wear enough fine cashmere, silk, and kid gloves to furnish their own undead Barney’s boutique. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) They’re informally attired: During most of the program, they wear an attractive assortment of leotards, skirts and trousers. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) The goddess Nut, stylishly attired in a white dress with a red belt, appeared to have a five-o’clock shadow. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) adj dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination the elegantly attired gentleman tuxedo- attired gentlemen Syn appareled, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed clad, clothed wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination |
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