finery

Definition

Fineness; beauty.

Example Sentences

• "The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings."
• "the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries"
• "In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining."

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