Finery
['faɪn(ə)rɪ] or ['faɪnəri]
Definition
(n.) Fineness; beauty.
(n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gewgaws, trinkets, fine things, showy dress, tinsel trappings.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Overornament, tawdriness, tinsel, gewgaw, trinkets, trash, dressiness, bedizenment
ANT:Ornament, dress, decoration, adornment, chastity, simplicity, sobriety
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Examples
- We were all three unusually well dressed on that evening, for our finery was new and we humbly hoped in very good taste. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I had my choice of the parts, said Mr. Rushworth; but I thought I should like the Count best, though I do not much relish the finery I am to have. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Look that thou pass him not on the way; for the circumcised slave was displaying his stolen finery amongst us. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- What did this finery mean? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Allah also had to speak very plainly about the general craving among this household of women for this world's life and its ornature and for finery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All women like finery--extraordinary the effect of those parasols. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- How he should have liked to have returned to the tribe to parade before their envious gaze this wondrous finery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The ignorance of the times affords but few of the trinkets in which that finery consists. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The families who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But I am quite in the minority, I believe; few people seem to value simplicity of dress,show and finery are every thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Here you are all got together at this sale of fineries and knickknacks. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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