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attire
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Great Expectations
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- A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.†
p. 181.4
- His arms and legs were like great pincushions of those shapes, and his attire disguised him absurdly; but I knew his half-closed eye at one glance.†
p. 240.1 *
- That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now engaged in substituting for her green kid gloves a pair of white.†
p. 482.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(attire) clothing -- especially of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)