Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.
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Examples for "attire "
Examples for "attire "
1 The couples left the dining area to shop for their new attire .
2 This was a grave, smooth-faced individual in the attire of a notary.
3 Three armed figures in battle-stained attire picked their way among the bodies.
4 But we also don't need to bar otherwise accepted contemporary business attire .
5 The guests were escorted to the bar area in their new attire .
1 No woman should overdress in her own house; it is the worst taste.
2 A bodice and overdress of white cretonne flowered with red roses.
3 It's not the dress, she said, taking the overdress off.
4 Colonial overdress and bodice of white, brocaded with pale-blue roses.
5 You never want to be at a party underdressed, so I always tend to overdress .
1 That's not even getting into what your prink government used to do.
2 In flowers that prink the earth, and stars that gem the skies.
3 We'll miss it all if you stop to prink .
4 Now you go and prink up for dinner.
5 You don't know how to prink , do you?
1 We'll talk tomorrow; I'll call you as soon as I get up .
2 He wanted to get up but she said: 'Sit where you are.
3 What time did they get up , arrive home from work, have dinner?
4 I saw Shifty Schiff get up yesterday and say this is Russia.
5 Tesla has said the new Cybertruck will get up to 500 miles.
1 I've kind of always liked to rig out swell when I could.
2 Get a good rig out , so as to appear to advantage.
3 With this load he went to the roadside and began to rig out a fence-post.
4 We must rig out a cot for it there.
5 Up with the royals and rig out stun'-sails, Mr Wilson, (to the mate).
2 Meet me about half-past seven, Walter, up in the room, all togged up .
3 It was Del Mar, all togged up and carrying a magazine in his hand.
4 Observe my lady in curl-papers and my lady togged up for a dinner party.
5 Probably a football player never had more assistance in togging up for a game.
1 Later at about 4.30 p.m. he will tog out for hockey practice with the under-14s.
2 Today marks the first time we, the Irish women's rugby team, will tog out to play in our own national rugby stadium.
3 The Irish players tog out in men's and mixed gender teams, with two teams carrying European Champions titles into this bigger arena.
4 In silk, with a trademark Latin, the plutocrat's wife appears, and I can afford but satin to tog out my dimpled dears.
5 Wee winter sports fans can tog out in baby snow suits, mini goggles and the wonderfully warm and waterproof Molehill Snow Mocs (left).
1 Tis the season to dress up your home with the season's best.
2 Look, maybe he just wanted to dress up the discovery a bit.
3 Any effort to dress up would have simply been in vain, anyway.
4 I asked incredulously, mentally sorting through our box of dress up clothes.
5 While you've been playing dress up , I've come up with a plan.
1 A man was working his way from the deck up into the rigging.
2 He twisted it and pulled the back deck up without allowing himself to think.
3 Just at this moment there seemed to be some excitement on the deck up forward.
4 He picked the deck up fondly, while a faraway look came into his clouded eyes.
5 Even though ops was only one deck up , the three-meter climb might as well have been a thousand.
1 No need to gussy up the place -we won't be staying long.
2 You don't gussy up a zen garden with autumn ferns.
3 They make pretty patterns on a whole ham ready for roasting, and can gussy up an otherwise plain apple tart.
4 Each represents an effort to gussy up the raw economics of land development with the comforting, familiar tropes of the knowledge economy.
5 Julie Delpy's My Zoe isn't nearly so enchanting, but it does gussy up a ludicrous narrative with proper acting and meringue-soft science fiction.
1 And I fancy up to now she has had her own way in everything.
2 You can fancy up my excuse, or think up one of your own-I don't care which.
3 And look at you, all fancied up and haristocratic, I see.
4 Haymitch and Effie are all fancied up for the occasion.
5 There goes the chief, Terry, all fancied up like a bathroom on a German liner!
1 But I know you've got one more trick up your sleeve: 10.
2 I learned the trick up in New England, where I come from.
3 I had no plans, no schemes, no last trick up my sleeve.
4 But he can't keep the trick up because the trick isn't working.
5 Was Karlov afraid or had he some new trick up his sleeve?
1 They were usually fifteen and sixteen hours below deck out of the twenty-four.
2 I think I heard the deck out there collapse during the Big Rumble.
3 She wasn't on the deck out back or on the beach with the others.
4 Get Richard there up the ladder and you be on the big deck out back.
5 NewsImageFile: The Celebrity Solstice is well decked out for a relaxing holiday.
1 So they had to leave that trick out of the second act.
2 It takes upward of 1 hour to trick out Eisenhower's Lincoln.
3 Matt: OK, so just pulling every trick out of the bag?
4 If we could find that trick out and take it back with us!
5 A new paint job and custom sounds trick out the machine with Halo flair.
1 Hermoine pushed a tray of honeyed figs out of a slave's hands.
2 I knew he wasn't figged out for nothing, put in Jock.
3 Why, I am figged out like a princess, and I never wear sabots now.
4 Well, and ain't they figged out !
5 It was not in the least to blame; and it seems most unreasonable to have expected it to bear figs out of season.
6 "Oh, I guess not," said the boy, as he sat down on a tin cracker box and began to eat figs out of a box.
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