finery
IPA: fˈaɪnɝi
noun
- (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
- (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
- fine point; minute characteristic
- (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
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Examples of "finery" in Sentences
- All of that finery is hidden under their look-alike robes.
- A short while before midnight the gods adorned themselves in finery and jewels.
- I confess that the time has been when what you call finery, was to me the dearest thing on earth; but I begin to feel differently.
- He had insisted on taking her to Manchester, and, in spite of many protests, had bought her what she called finery only fit for a lass.
- That fascinating person, dripping in finery and with a foreign accent and jewels and furs, who came here once in a while was our version of Hollywood.
- There were a number of overtly-dressed and armed security guards at the entrances to the room, and my trained eye noted five special agents – dressed in finery and mingled with the crowd.
- The association, through the taboos Julia was supposed to conceal (in "finery") from me, of female bodies with danger is what makes the relational histories imprinted on women's handmade pottery so important.
- Sunday bedizened in Spanish finery, with such a blaze and rustle, that the good vicar had to remonstrate humbly with Mrs. Leigh on the disturbance which she caused to the eyes and thoughts of all his congregation.
- European ladies who may actually have penetrated into a harem, perhaps in Constantinople or in Cairo, are still unacquainted with the real harem; they have only known its outer semblance in the rooms kept for show, rooms where European finery is partially aped.
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