attired en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
In 1900 he painted a large and ambitious canvas of an attired maid combing a nude's hair, La Toilette de la Baigneuse, which is more extended and conclusive than any of his previous works.
2021, Willard Huntington Wright, Modern Painting: Its Tendency andd Meaning:Never did such an attired pair dance together, I ween.
1901, John Sergeant Wise, The End of an Era, page 409:Her limbs, too, consist of bones hinged together, emerging out of a dress—as if she is simply an attired skeleton.
2023, Robert L. Pincus, On a Scale that Competes with the World:Seen from its base, Mount Namjagbarwa resembles an attired god with white clouds as his belt.
2007, Ying Liu, Natural Wonders in China, page 15:Malvery recounts such an attired 'foreigner' attempting to address her in a train.
2012, E. Godfrey, Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society:This was at the height of the Age of Fans; these indispensable arms, as constant accompaniment to an attired lady as a sword to a well-equipped gentleman, were often much more costly than this, being generally curiously mounted, and richly adorned.
1840 February, “Glimps of the Domestic Economy of Bygone Times”, in The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 5, number 56, page 241:
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(not-comparable) Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.
Crest: A goat's head erased ar attired or.
1828, Thomas Allan, The History And Antiquities Of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent:
Deriveds
Translations (2)
gd adharcach (heraldry: said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head) · pl odziany (heraldry: said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head)