FINERY

finery

(noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories

Source: WordNet® 3.1

finery (countable and uncountable, plural fineries)

(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.

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

(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

Source: Wiktionary

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. Etym: [Cf. Refinery.] (Iron Works)

Definition: A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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