vbl. sb. [f. ATTIRE v.]

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  1.  The action of fitting out, accoutring, dressing, apparelling.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 1941. For [to] telle þe a-tiryng of þat child þat time.

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1611.  Rich, Honest. Age (1844), 26. This strange atiring of themselues.

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1678.  Phillips, Attiring, a dressing, or apparrelling, from Tiara, a Persian ornament for the Head.

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1836.  Chamb. Jrnl., 6 Aug., 217. A certain smartness in the attiring of the neck.

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  2.  a. Dress, apparel, trappings of a horse. b. Head-dress. c. Personal ornament. d. fig.

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1552.  Huloet, Attirings yt gentilwomen weare on their heades, Ridemicula.

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1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 89. Thee Troian atyring And Troian weapons.

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1596.  Drayton, Legends, i. 123. Putting her rich Gems and attyrings on.

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1631.  Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 697. The exoticke forme of their attiring.

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1859.  W. Gregory, Egypt in 1855–6, I. 33. Dromedaries, with their leopard-skin attirings.

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  3.  The ‘attire’ of a stag or deer.

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1678.  Phillips, Attiring, a term of Heraldry. Also among Hunters the Branching Horns.

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1742.  Bailey, Attiring the branching Horns of a Buck.

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  4.  Comb. † Attiring-house, -room (obs.) = TIRING-HOUSE, -ROOM, the room or place where players attire or dress themselves for the stage; attiring-room, also a dressing-room, generally.

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1647.  Assembly-man, in Harl. Misc. (1745), V. 94/1. This Assembly is the two Houses Attiring-room, where the Lords and Commons put on their Vizards and Masks of Religion.

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1656.  Trapp, Comm. 1 Tim. v. 645/1. Follow stage-players into their attiring-house.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Life H. Smith, in Smith’s Wks. (1866), I. 7. As few did take notice of their coming out of their attiring-house, so their well acting on the stage commanded all eyes to observe their returning thereunto.

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1756.  C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 346. Fit houses … furnished with warm stoves, and attiring rooms.

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