2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Finery \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
finery
n : especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: {array}, {raiment},
{regalia}]
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