fineries
- plural of finery.
Example Sentences
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While most festivalgoers don the likes of velvet, bodices, feathered caps and other fineries, Matthews and his friends coordinated peasant-inspired costumes in an effort to represent the everyman.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2022
The burial site, and particularly the crown and other fineries interred with the woman, hinted at a premodern European culture in which women might have held considerable power.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
A cathedral can endure the loss of its stained glass and other fineries, as has happened in Britain where all our cathedrals were vandalised in the Reformation and civil war.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019
Beyond the constant dialectic between streetwear and ladylike fineries - the sweatshirts and pencil skirts were worn together - the collection was also playing with opacity and transparency.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2011
You will often see Christina wearing her fineries in her grand new home.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
