arraying

English

Verb

arraying

1. present participle of array

Noun

arraying (plural arrayings)

1. The act of clothing or adorning.
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

     The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutions, arrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little.