Finery

Quick meaning: Finery is a noun meaning (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

Meaning

(countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

More Meanings

1. fine point; minute characteristic
2. (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
3. (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.

Example Sentences

the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries

The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings.

In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.

Word Forms

• fineries

Synonyms for finery

Depending on context, synonyms include regalia, array, raiment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regalia, array, raiment, attire, superfinery, finesse.

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