attiring

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"They were seeing themselves as individuals and set themselves apart," said Wendi Ferreira of the styling duo Wendi and Nicole, who are attiring Oyelowo, Channing Tatum and Chris Pine for the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2015

Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits.

From Time Magazine Archive

She held her head high, and seemed, by her attiring and dignity, accustomed to other places than this moorland farm-town.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The next day the king notified his readiness to receive the traveller, who, attiring himself in a Highland costume, was carried on the shoulders of a number of men into the presence of the monarch.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

And who can wonder? he was a guest from necessity, not choice, he neither chose the fashion of his coming, or that of his attiring.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles