finery

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Meaning

Fineness; beauty.

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

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

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Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. Christiaan Huygens

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. Ihara Saikaku

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery. Cassandra Clare

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. Grant Morrison

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. Karl Philipp Moritz

Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie. Spanish Proverb

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