finery
Meaning of finery
noun
- expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration.
officers in their blue, gold, and scarlet finery
late 17th century: from fine1, on the pattern of bravery .
noun
a hearth where pig iron was converted into wrought iron.
late 16th century: from French finerie, from Old French finer ‘refine’.
Information about finery
- It is a name.
- The plural form of finery is: fineries.
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Hyphenation of finery
fin-ery
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- finery is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
finery synonyms
Meaning the emblems or insignia of royalty, especially the crown, sceptre, and other ornaments used at a coronation:
Meaning clothing, especially of a distinctive or special kind:
Meaning one's smartest or most formal clothes:
Meaning magnificent and splendid appearance; grandeur:
Meaning attractive articles of little value or use:
Meaning showy or unnecessary ornament in architecture, dress, or language:
Meaning a thing which adorns or decorates; an ornament:
Meaning the outward signs, features, or objects associated with a particular situation, role, or job:
Meaning the process or art of decorating something:
Meaning hit (someone) hard:
Meaning clothing:
Meaning tawdry finery:
finery antonyms
Meaning a piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece, used typically for cleaning things:
Words that rhyme with finery
archdeanery, beanery, chicanery, deanery, decanery, subdeanery, avenery, convenery, coparcenery, evergreenery, greenery, scenery, scrivenery, venery, alpinery, antimachinery, cordwainery, enginery, fascinery, grainery, groinery, harlequinery, joinery, machinery, millinery, minery, penguinery, pinery, promachinery, refinery, swinery, turbomachinery, veinery, vinery, winery, limnery, Connery, Flannery, Jannery, Nunnery, cannery, dinnery, ginnery, gunnery, hennery, japannery, kinnery, nunnery, pannery, popgunnery
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