About The Word Finery
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Finery
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What's The Definition Of Finery?
[n] especially fine or decorative clothing
Synonyms | Synonyms for Finery: array | raiment | regalia Related Terms | Find terms related to Finery: apparel | bravery | chiffon | clinquant | clothes | decorations | fancy dress | festoons | folderol | foofaraw | frill | frilliness | frilling | frills | frills and furbelows | frippery | froufrou | full dress | fuss | gaiety | gaudery | gear | gewgaw | gilding | gilt | gingerbread | ornament | ornaments | party dress | paste | pinchbeck | regalia | Sunday best | superfluity | tinsel | trappings | trickery | trimming | trinkets | trumpery | war paint See Also | apparel | article of clothing | clothes | clothing | vesture | war paint | wear | wearing apparel Finery In Webster's Dictionary \Fin"er*y\, n.
1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.]
Don't choose your place of study by the finery of
the prospects. --I. Watts.
2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration;
showy clothes; jewels.
Her mistress' cast-off finery. --F. W.
Robertson.
3. [Cf. {Refinery}.] (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or
furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron,
or into iron suitable for puddling.
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