What's the difference between accoutre and attire?
Accoutre
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the present degree of accoutrements abscesses in thoracal part located close to spine couldn't be cited by this method of research.
(2) North Korea has focused on boosting tourism, providing the impoverished country with the accoutrements of a "civilised" nation and, most visibly, encouraging a broader interest in sports.
(3) Both circumvent the bind by employing the life-style solution, a strategy that attempts to heal by covertly filling the empty self with the accoutrements, values, and mannerisms of idealized figures.
(4) But Wenger could take heart for the battles ahead in the manner of the response to Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Stoke City, which had come with all of the usual accoutrements of a bad Arsenal loss.
(5) In some ways Co-op has all the accoutrements of big business: a swanky new £100m head office in central Manchester, glass-fronted and cylindrical, and big pay cheques for its bosses.
(6) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
(7) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.
(8) Kim Jong-un "clearly has a penchant for the modern accoutrements of life", he said.
(9) The costume made her an anonymous test subject and stripped her of the accoutrements of sexuality or eroticism.
(10) The navy gave him a home and a wage – an unroyal accoutrement that was very much needed.
(11) There are horse-drawn carts filled high with hay and in the villages of bare-brick homes, whose only modern accoutrement appears to be the satellite, many live close to their animals tethered in adjacent muddy courtyards.
(12) To posture as a superpower, we had to possess a superpower's accoutrements.
(13) Fans in Seattle fill an NFL stadium, march to games and mimic the accoutrements of ultras culture from Europe and South America.
(14) 9.21pm BST 63 min: And now Lampard has a yellow card to go with his arm accoutrement, for sliding in rashly on Martin.
(15) As many have pointed out, it beggars belief that Sharapova and her huge entourage – all the machinery and accoutrements of modern sport from IMG to Nike, and her own medical and support staff – could have missed the fact that a drug she had been taking for a decade had been made illegal.
(16) In her campaign for the governorship, she easily outwitted her male opponent, a traditional Texan Republican with cowboy accoutrements.
(17) All the accoutrements of a modern major sporting event were present and correct – the sponsors’ branding, the all but sold-out stands, the painted faces and the garish wigs – but there was also an impatience to get under way and park the concerns of the buildup.
(18) Just as students today are burdened if they don’t have home Internet—and at the university where I work, that is true of some of our commuter students, much as people might find that hard to believe—there will be an expectation that successful living as a human will require being equipped with pricey accoutrements… Reflecting on this makes me concerned that as the digital divide widens, people left behind will be increasingly invisible and increasingly seen as less than full humans.” • Beware the Internet of Things
(19) The great Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness noted in 1925 that Reykjavik had finally acquired all the accoutrements of modernity: “not only a university and a movie theatre, but also football and homosexuality”.
(20) From here also issue other accoutrements of statecraft: the national debt, Bank of England and budget.
Attire
Definition:
(v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
(n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
(n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
(n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
Example Sentences:
(1) The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control are currently stressing the need for protective clinical attire and barrier techniques to reduce cross-contamination and the spread of diseases.
(2) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
(3) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
(4) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
(5) If the vendors are similarly attired then this doesn't help either," says Tim Dansie at Jackson-Stops & Staff.
(6) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
(7) Many program directors indicated they are considering changes in clinical attire requirements in the future because of concern for infection control.
(8) Latex gloves have become a standard part of OR attire, and even though they serve as the primary form of hand protection in the OR, gloves also may serve as one of the key causes of contact or allergic dermatitis in OR personnel.
(9) Thus attired, she demanded a second audition as the fat nurse – and got the part, as Nurse Hilda Price.
(10) To study patient preferences on physician attire and etiquette, we interviewed 200 patients on the general medical services of teaching hospitals in Boston and San Francisco.
(11) Setback of the week Dubai: Greek model Vicky Xipolitakis – flying to Dubai in an attempt to reach Diego Maradona's 53rd birthday party, but stopped and fined at the airport for " inappropriate attire ".
(12) Although children had no strong positive preferences, they may feel negatively about informal attire.
(13) In the last two years, a man dressed as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a two-year-old, a person attired in Super Mario's overalls was accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleashing an antisemitic tirade.
(14) I have said before that I find it a fairly confronting form of attire.
(15) In person, he looks like central casting's idea of a technology guru: vast bulk, informal attire, no socks, beard and dreadlocks.
(16) In the middle of the hotel bar, George Lamb sits tall and flamboyantly attired: grey suit, tanned skin, crisp shirt, plumey hair.
(17) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
(18) The Observer is brilliantly, admirably non-restrictive about employee attire, and I'm lucky to be relatively free to dress myself of a morning.
(19) In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Methodists and Atlantic storms, he might appear at an ordination attired in mitre, ceremonial gloves and gremial (a silk apron-like covering for the lap of bishops).
(20) Zuckerberg's hipster attire is an eloquent statement of his disregard for those on whom his business's continued expansion relies.