Both Uses of
attire
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- And he came, forsooth, to battle with golden attire like a girl—fond man: that held not back in any wise grievous destruction, but he was vanguished by the hands of fleet-footed Aiakides in the river, and wise-hearted Achilles carried away his gold.†
Book 2 *
- From off her head she shook the bright attiring thereof, frontlet and net and woven band, and veil, the veil that golden Aphrodite gave her on the day when Hector of the glancing helm led her forth of the house of Eetion, having given bride-gifts untold.†
Book 22
Definition:
clothing -- especially of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion