finery1
/ˈfʌɪn(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun]
Expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration: officers in their blue, gold, and scarlet finery...
- Whether dressed in work clothes or finery, or in various states of undress, his most enduring images of women are those which offer glimpses of the contradictions and complexities of existence.
- Furiously, Louis tore off the leather gloves adding them to the trail of expensive finery he had ripped off.
- A richly decorated palanquin, escorted by a band of priests and devotees, carried in the Kumari, dressed in her gold and scarlet finery.
Synonyms
regalia, elaborate/best clothes, garb, best, Sunday best;
splendour, showiness, gaudiness, trumpery, frippery, adornment, trappings, decorations
informal glad rags, best gear, best bib and tucker, clobber
formal apparel
rare fallalery
Origin
Late 17th century: from fine1, on the pattern of bravery.
Rhymes
finery2
/ˈfʌɪn(ə)ri/noun (plural fineries) historical
A hearth where pig iron was converted into wrought iron.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French finerie, from Old French finer 'refine'.