Definition: finery

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

finery
     n : especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array, raiment,
          regalia]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Finery \Fin"er*y\, n.
   1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.]

            Don't choose your place of study by the finery of
            the prospects.                        --I. Watts.

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

            Her mistress' cast-off finery.        --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.

   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.