FINERY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.

2.
n.

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

3.
n.

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.


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