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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Finery

Fin'a-ry, n.

noun

n. Finery. See FINERY.

Fin'er-y, n.

noun

n. 1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, showy or excessive decoration. “Her mistress' cast-off finery.” F. W. Robertson. 3. A place where any thing is fined or refined; a refinery; a furnace for making iron malleable. Buchanan.