ATTIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attired mean? 

• ATTIRED (adjective)
  The adjective ATTIRED has 1 sense:

1. dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: ATTIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination

Synonyms:

appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed

Context example:

crimson-robed Harvard professors

Similar:

clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

They ought to have come a little sooner to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It ran as follows: Wanted, a woman of good address, attired like a lady.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a black canvas bag in his hand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She no longer wore her gay riding-dress, however, but was attired in a long sweeping robe of black velvet of Bruges, with delicate tracery of white lace at neck and at wrist, scarce to be seen against her ivory skin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behold me so attired, and with my little worldly all before me in a small trunk, sitting, a lone lorn child (as Mrs. Gummidge might have said), in the post-chaise that was carrying Mr. Quinion to the London coach at Yarmouth!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The post-chaise stopped; the driver rang the door-bell, and a gentleman alighted attired in travelling garb; but it was not Mr. Rochester; it was a tall, fashionable-looking man, a stranger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Two or three times in the course of the night, attired in a long flannel wrapper in which she looked seven feet high, she appeared, like a disturbed ghost, in my room, and came to the side of the sofa on which I lay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sisters were both attired in spotless white.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)