attired

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English

Two wapitis or attired sable.

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attired

  1. simple past and past participle of attire

Adjective

attired (not comparable)

  1. Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
    • 1840 February, “Glimps of the Domestic Economy of Bygone Times”, in The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 5, number 56, page 241:
      This was at the height of the Age of Fans; these indispensable arms, as constant accompaniment to an attired lady as a sword to a well-equipped gentleman, were often much more costly than this, being generally curiously mounted, and richly adorned.
    • 1901, John Sergeant Wise, The End of an Era, page 409:
      Never did such an attired pair dance together, I ween.
    • 2007, Ying Liu, Natural Wonders in China, page 15:
      Seen from its base, Mount Namjagbarwa resembles an attired god with white clouds as his belt.
    • 2012, E. Godfrey, Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society:
      Malvery recounts such an attired 'foreigner' attempting to address her in a train.
    • 2021, Willard Huntington Wright, Modern Painting: Its Tendency andd Meaning:
      In 1900 he painted a large and ambitious canvas of an attired maid combing a nude's hair, La Toilette de la Baigneuse, which is more extended and conclusive than any of his previous works.
    • 2023, Robert L. Pincus, On a Scale that Competes with the World:
      Her limbs, too, consist of bones hinged together, emerging out of a dress—as if she is simply an attired skeleton.
  2. (heraldry) Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.
    • 1828, Thomas Allan, The History And Antiquities Of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent:
      Crest: A goat's head erased ar attired or.

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  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

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