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finery

UK/ˈfaɪnəɹi/US/ˈfaɪnəɹi/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,139 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: fineries

Finery is showy clothes and ornaments worn for display. Dressed in her finery, wedding finery, all their finery.

It is faintly mocking — finery suggests display for its own sake, where fine clothes need not. It is uncountable and usually possessive: your finery, their finery. Note fine beneath it, plus the -ery ending that makes collective nouns.

Definitions of finery

  1. 1nounfineryShowy clothes and ornaments worn for display.C1

    “The guests arrived at the royal ball dressed in all their finery.”

finery is clothing.

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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finery in the wild

  • The idol of Kalubai sports two silver masks and silk finery.

    Mandhradevi

  • Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favoured historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.

    Ferdinand Bol

  • Osmond iron was made by melting pig iron in a hearth that is narrower and deeper than a typical finery in an English finery forge.

    Osmond process

  • The iron was apparently forged with a tilt hammer, rather than the helve hammer, usual in finery forges.

    Osmond process

  • Shingling was a stage in the production of bar iron or steel, in the finery and puddling processes.

    Shingling

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