'Finery' definitions:
Definition of 'finery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Elaborate or showy attire and accessories
Definition of 'Finery'
From: GCIDE
- Finery \Fin"er*y\, n.
- 1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. [1913 Webster]
- Her mistress' cast-off finery. --F. W. Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'finery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apparel,
- bravery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- clothes,
- decorations,
- fancy dress,
- festoons,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- frill,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- full dress,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gaudery,
- gear,
- gewgaw,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- ornament,
- ornaments,
- party dress,
- paste,
- pinchbeck,
- regalia,
- Sunday best,
- superfluity,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trimming,
- trinkets,
- trumpery,
- war paint