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Attire

1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; especially, ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. (Milton) I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. (Shak) Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? (Jer. Ii. 32)

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

3. (Science: botany) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.