finery
11finery — noun all dressed up in her finery Syn: regalia, best clothes, best, Sunday best; informal glad rags …
12finery — Mea kāhiko. ♦ War finery, kāhiko kaua …
13Finery forge — Iron tapped from the blast furnace is pig iron, and contains significant amounts of carbon and silicon. To produce malleable wrought iron, it needs to undergo a further process. In the early modern period, this was carried out in a finery forge.… …
14finery process — Early method of converting cast iron to wrought iron, superseding the bloomery process after blast furnaces became widespread. Pieces of cast iron (see pig iron) were placed on a finery hearth, on which charcoal was being burned with a plentiful… …
15finery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1680 ornament, decoration; especially dressy or showy clothing and jewels …
16finery — finery1 /fuy neuh ree/, n. fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc. [1670 80; FINE1 + ERY] finery2 /fuy neuh ree/, n., pl. fineries. Metalworking. a hearth for converting cast iron into wrought iron; refinery. [1600 10; < MF finerie, equiv. to… …
17finery — Synonyms and related words: Sunday best, apparel, bravery, chiffon, clinquant, clothes, decorations, fancy dress, festoons, folderol, foofaraw, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, full dress, fuss,… …
18finery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. frippery, frills, tinsel. See ornament. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. frippery, regalia, dress clothes, trappings, trimmings, glad rags*, best bib and tucker*, Sunday best*, Sunday go to meeting clothes*;… …
19finery — fin|er|y [ faınəri ] noun uncount beautiful clothes and jewelry, especially the sort that people wear only on special occasions …
20finery — fin·er·y || faɪnÉ™rɪ n. fancy clothes; iron foundry; refinery …
