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finery

/ˈfaɪnəri/

finerynoun

fineries

Translations

She wore her finest finery to the gala.

Она надела свои лучшие украшения на гала-вечер.

The guests arrived in their best finery.

Гости прибыли в своих лучших нарядах.

Additional translations

Definitions

Expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration.

She dressed in her finest finery for the gala event.

(metallurgy) A hearth or forge in which pig iron is refined into wrought iron.

The museum still preserves an 18th-century finery used for producing wrought iron.

Synonyms

fancy dress

fineryadjective

/ˈfaɪnəri/

Used attributively in technical terms such as "finery forge"; treated as adjective per guidelines.

Definitions

Relating to or used in the finery process of refining iron.

Finery hearths were once common in pre-industrial ironworks.