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What does finery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word finery? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
  2. (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
  3. (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
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The titular parade was a real event that occurred every Easter, where everyone would walk down Fifth Avenue decked out in their Easter 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.
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.
The initiate is dressed in finery and escorted with pomp to the monastery, where his head and eyebrows are shaved.
And finally, we sallied forth into the centre of Nottingham in all our 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.

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