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Sentence Examples I even video-taped Malayali girls decked up in traditional finery, working as waitresses in bars in the Gulf. What a crowd, from geisha and maiko to grandmas and and grandpas, tourists and romantic couples, the young women dressed in kimono finery. The people wore ragged homespun and the women with painted faces, faded finery. I pranced in without knocking to find Mother, dressed in her scarlet finery, standing on the platform the seamstresses used to pin dresses. The titular parade was a real event that occurred every Easter, where everyone would walk down Fifth Avenue decked out in their Easter finery. The initiate is dressed in finery and escorted with pomp to the monastery, where his head and eyebrows are shaved. During the war effort it was stripped of all its finery and put to work by a boilermaker in the Midlands. Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery. No, we are not referring to the famed streets of Dubai, which display gold trinkets in all their finery. Daemon idly wondered how she could move in all those layers of clothes, though her finery was proof that she was truly a noble. It was draped loathsomely in ragged finery, now soiled with blood and gore that blackened slowly in the heat that enfolded it. Just because Gramps was a great, public spirited man does not mean that junior, who has grown up with a taste for finery, will be the same. The girls' high-street finery, a Lycra mishmash of tat and glitter, sparkles feebly under red, yellow and purple neon strip lights. She made sure she wasn't dressed in finery and she even swallowed her pride for the day and a half journey through the woods. In the reception hall, Tibetan furniture, finery and ornaments evoked such alien sentiments that we were immediately addicted to them. The attractive strings of pearls from Hyderabad, birthstones and a wide array of semi-precious stones from exotic places add to the finery. So I stowed, in waterproof containers, in the back of my canoe, victuals and wine and a picnic blanket and other such finery. And finally, we sallied forth into the centre of Nottingham in all our finery. Now the fourpenny hop was great old crack as the boys and girls were there in their finery, dressed to kill, as they'd say. People hurried back and forth, wrapped in cloaks or swirling capes behind them, in peasant wear or merchant finery. Show More Sentences He retains a detailed knowledge of uniforms and parade punctilio, and his sartorial finery is legendary within the Waitati Militia. A richly decorated palanquin, escorted by a band of priests and devotees, carried in the Kumari, dressed in her gold and scarlet finery. For Mr Bartholomew, the chairman of Devizes-based Wadworth, went to pick up Ms Marsden on Thursday in a brewery dray done out in all its finery. Furiously, Louis tore off the leather gloves adding them to the trail of expensive finery he had ripped off. Brandark's finery had astounded everyone, and some of those who'd prudently withdrawn from his vicinity had been lured back when he uncased his balalaika and began strumming. This recreational outing was an opportunity to show off your most beautiful finery and your most handsome equipage. The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers. Nearby stood a bush of peonies with big pink faces, amorous and Elizabethan in their high-colored finery. But if you were looking for regal finery, flowery speeches and Champagne, you were in the wrong place. This also being a social occasion, the populace is invited to wear their best period finery and to bring food to share. Condé has been bedecked with nicest finery of course in colours of the Union Jack. With a case suggesting the shape of a royal crown, this stunning watch re-interprets the splendour of palaces in modern-day finery. In their Sunday best, in their finery, Montrealers wanted to see and, especially, be seen. His finery and elegant features suggest he is a noble character in the multitudinous wayang cast. It is a normal caravan, but when arrayed in all its finery it becomes a great lady to see and to hear! The ballroom was the place to show off one's talent as a dancer, mastery of étiquette and latest finery. We toil for the Plan and lift the whole of Maya's finery into the Light of Wisdom's Word. The glasses for the dial and the case, made of rock crystal, allow the movement to display its finery and the marvels of its finish. They hum even more after a game at the nearby stadium or a race day, when girls and guys arrive in their crumpled trackside finery. It unveils its content in all its finery. To keep and turn into a? sewing box of course! Show More Sentences On this occasion each cow is decked out in flowers and bells and all the finery. The banquet hall had been full of the court dressed in their finery. Excited graduates walk up and down, parading their finery of gowns, hoods and mortarboards seemingly oblivious to the fact that these are colonial trappings. A well-bred innocent, dressed in elegant sober clothes and perhaps from the provinces, falls victim to a couple of cockaded predators, preposterous in their ragged finery. The brainchild of Divya Gurwara, the exposition for all-bridal finery, apparel, and products is held every year in New Delhi in September or October. They are all bearded bigwigs dressed in finery and look remarkably alike. The pupils dressed in white finery sat attentively throughout the mass. In addition to the black-tie horse shows that draw the ladies who lunch in all their finery, this year's fair features a rodeo in the centre ring. Caroline Baudelaire was a good-looking woman who delighted in dressing in her finery when going out at night. The men, in their coat and tails, and women, in all their finery, are forced to hop and ribbit. The young women, far from bearing an aura of the soberly domestic, will be putting on their best finery, decking themselves out in hopes of attracting a lover. Prospero devises a show of tinsel finery to sidetrack the vulgarians, but he is not present to see Caliban's disillusionment, or his vehement contempt. There are paintings of haughty aristocrats in all their finery and of boisterous booze-ups. But his mistress arrives with finery expecting to paint the town red, and interprets his insistence on dining in as horror of being seen with her in public. They were trimmed with passementerie that might have been salvaged from a Victorian steamer trunk in which the finery of an old-fashioned maidenhood had been abandoned along with its illusions. Wrought iron for smiths to forge into consumer goods was still made in finery forges, as it long had been. The banquet hall was decorated as never before in finery including helium balloon bouquets that adorned each table, mini lights and special edition placemats featuring pictures of past and current members. Inspired in form by various forms of North American Indian ceremonial dress, the finery is a hymn to the cultural vitality and craftsmanship of the continent's first inhabitants. Masoala Rain Forest in Zurich is intended also to encourage visitors to visit the National Park as tourists and to experience the beauty and variety of the rain forest in all its finery. Unexpectedly, one morning found us ushered into Carrot Bay's Seventh Day Adventist Church service, having stopped, en route to the beach in shorts, to watch the islanders arrive in their finery. Show More Sentences Do adornment or finery really mean the hair and face? Such crowns have been most often discovered in tumulus-shaped tombs-often of impressive size-along with other finery such as pendant earrings, brooches, belts, swords and, more rarely, shoes made from precious metals. Even now, the great and powerful of these countries and of the world gather at seaside villas, where, turned out in their finery, they laud each other surrounded by body guards. The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney. Traditionally, pig iron was worked into wrought iron in finery forges, later puddling furnaces, and more recently into steel. Earlier processes for this included the finery forge, the puddling furnace, the Bessemer process, and the open hearth furnace. In about 1754, renewed experiments took place with the application of coke pig iron to the production of bar iron in charcoal finery forges. The puddling furnace, introduced by Henry Cort in the 1780s to replace the older finery process, was also a variety of reverberatory furnace. Most of the pig iron from these furnaces was taken to finery forges for the production of bar iron. The bars were the usual product of the finery forge, but not necessarily made by that process. Only in the 1750s was coke pig iron used on any significant scale as the feedstock of finery forges. He and his partners were responsible for a very important innovation in introducing the use of coke pig iron as the feedstock for finery forges. In Europe, the concept of the finery forge may have been evident as early as the 13th century. Sulphur impurities from the coke made it 'hot short', or brittle when heated, and so the finery process was unworkable for it. Historically, charcoal was used in great quantities for smelting iron in bloomeries and later blast furnaces and finery forges. A keen eye will know how to effortlessly mix and match the golden tones of the Grace palette with antique brass, satin, cashmere, damask, crystal and cherished finery. By comparison, Philip Massinger's The City Madam, a satire from 1632 revived by the RSC, is a splendiferous romp, awash with silver and gold finery. Everyone is decked out in their finery and Priya has even managed to co-ordinate her outfit with her baby buggy. The main action is on film: Ms. Niro, as mistress of ceremonies, introduces runway models dressed in found-material versions of ceremonial finery, including dresses stitched with candies and shirts stitched of tire rubber. Processes for the second stage include fining in a finery forge and, from the Industrial Revolution, puddling. Show More Sentences Steerpike derived as much pleasure in watching these anile and pitiful creatures, dressed in their purple finery, as they crawled beneath the carpet as he got from anything. At the Box Social scene everyone is dressed in their finery. The bloomery and osmond processes were gradually replaced from the 15th century by finery processes, of which there were two versions, the German and Walloon. That employed two different hearths, a finery hearth for finishing the iron and a chafery hearth for reheating it in the course of drawing the bloom out into a bar. The finery always burnt charcoal, but the chafery could be fired with mineral coal, since its impurities would not harm the iron when it was in the solid state. The forge had two kinds of hearths, the finery to finish the product and the chafery to reheat the bloom that was the raw material of the process. Rather, Grinnell is an uncompromising aggrandizer of the object and the product, almost like a nincteenth-century dandy in his embrace of surface and cosmetic finery. While the bloomery process produced wrought iron directly from ore, cast iron or pig iron were the starting materials used in the finery forge and puddling furnace. Examples from Classical Literature To her mind, a display of finery was not compatible with what she called religion. Pale women and children emerged from their laager, put on their finery, sunned themselves, and did their shopping. The list of the beauties who displayed their hebdomadal finery at the parish church of Waverley was neither numerous nor select. The poor Frenchmen looked like peacocks in their dress, but we did not envy them their finery. The Princess asked her to bring her ball dress and all the rest of her finery. They were all of them arrayed in their snakeskin dresses and other wizard finery. She knew all sorts of games, and invented all sorts of finery with leaves and shreds of rags. Sydney and Georgina would not need to scrimp little Queenie's share of finery to bedeck themselves now were she living. She had been at a village marriage that morning, and was bedecked in all her finery. Set designer Mark Bailey and costumer Ann Hould-Ward will have plenty of decadent finery to put on stage. Had they shown the least consciousness of their finery, or of its absurdity, they would have seemed despicable. Only the Turkish sultan, Bajazet and his daughter, Asteria appear in period finery, like peacocks in a world of corporate grey. The families who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose. At her side rode her brother, a splendid blaze of finery, falcon on wrist. Youth, beauty, health, finery and flirtation excite the sexual appetite. In young girls we observe coquetry and jealousy and the desire for finery. You remember I was lamenting that I hadn't got the necessary finery. Not being able to make them grand, they daubed them with finery. Ever since the Victorians 'took the air' and promenaded in their finery along the pier, holidaymakers have flocked to Southport to enjoy its charms and bracing sea air. And Pallas Athene bedecked her form with all manners of finery. Show More Sentences Appeared a little red-satin Spanish girdle, whale-boned like a tiny corset, pointed, the pioneer finery of a frontier woman who had crossed the plains. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of finery? Words that rhyme with finery What is the plural of finery? What is the adverb for finery? What is the adjective for finery? What is the noun for finery? Translations for finery Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fineries finer fine print fineness fine-mesh finely honed fines Fines finespun finesse finessed finesses 6-letter Words Starting With f fi fin fine finer