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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Sunday best, apparel, bravery, chiffon, clinquant, clothes, decorations, fancy dress, festoons, folderol, foofaraw, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, full dress, fuss, gaiety, gaudery, gear, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, ornament, ornaments, party dress, paste, pinchbeck, regalia, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trimming, trinkets, trumpery, war paint

Dictionary Results for finery:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

finery
    n 1: elaborate or showy attire and accessories

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Finery \Fin"er*y\, n.
   1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.]
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            Don't choose your place of study by the finery of
            the prospects.                        --I. Watts.
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   2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration;
      showy clothes; jewels.
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            Her mistress' cast-off finery.        --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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   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.
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