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Webster 1913 Edition
Finery
Fin′er-y
,Noun.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Finery
FI'NERY
,Noun.
1.
Show; splendor; gaiety of colors or appearance; as the finery of a dress.2.
Showy articles of dress; gay clothes, jewels, trinkets, &c.3.
In iron-works, the second forge at the iron-mills. [See Finary.]Definition 2024
finery
finery
English
Noun
finery (countable and uncountable, plural fineries)
- (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
- Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
- (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160:
- In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160:
Related terms
Translations
fineness — see fineness
excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels
charcoal hearth
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See also
- (charcoal hearth): refinery