Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of attire
nounattiring (plural attirings)
plural attirings
- ornamentation
Near to the widow, or rather loop-hole, heaped up in a most picturesque attitude of disorder, lay a score or two of rusty helmets, their grim attirings mostly broken and disjointed.
1827, John Roby, The Children of Ravendale
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with attiring
requiringhiringwiringfiringinspiringretiringaspiringdesiringexpiringinquiringadmiringtiringconspiringenquiringuninspiringrewiringuntiringquiringperspiringmisfiringrehiringsiringprehiringrefiring
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
attiring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attiring
MLA
“attiring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attiring. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “attiring,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attiring.
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