Also 6–7 tyring. [f. TIRE v.3 + -ING1.] The action of TIRE v.3; attiring, dressing (arch.: see b); dressing the hair; † fitting out (obs.); also concr. attire, apparel, head-dress (arch.); † equipment, apparatus, garnishing (obs.); spec. see quot. 1869 (dial.).
1552. Huloet, Byrlet or tyrynge for women.
1558. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 23. Sarcenet … imployed into … Shertes…, translated into lyninge pullinges oute tuftes tyringes and other garnisshinge. Ibid., 82. Sarsenettes … spent in rowles and wrethes tuftinge tyringe of hedpeces and gyrdells.
1602. Dekker, Satirom., Wks. 1873, I. 186. Such delayes in rising, in fitting gownes, in tyring [etc.].
1620. Shelton, Quix. (1746), IV. xxix. 228. In Hell they are working Tapistry Work, and there are made Tyrings and Net-works.
1656. Artif. Handsom., 67. Whose either haire, or complexion, or tiring is not natively their own.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Tiring, the plastering under slates.
1909. Daily Chron., 18 March, 3/1. He wears his learning as lightly as the tiring of the hair of Aphrodite, borne upon her swan in a Douris vase.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tiring-chamber, -closet, -glass, -man, place; tiring-woman, a lady’s maid. Also TIRING-HOUSE, -ROOM. Obs. or arch.
1645. Evelyn, Diary, 27 Feb. A cart, or plaustrum, where the scene or tiring-place is made of boughs in a rural manner.
1732. Fielding, Mod. Husb., IV. iv. I know several women of fashion I could not support for a tiring woman.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxii. The … intercession of the tiring-woman obtained admission for travelling merchants, or pedlars.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Duchess May, lxxii. The smile upon her face, ere she left the tiring-glass Had not time enough to go.
1856. Boker, Francesca da Rimini, I. i. I’ll be Your tiring-man, for once.
1860. Ld. Lytton, Lucile, II. iv. 77. From the dark tiring-chamber behind, straight reissue With new masks the old mummers.
