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Finery
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (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. A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.