finery

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

finery (countable and uncountable; plural fineries)

  1. (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
  2. 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.
    • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160:
      In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.

Related terms [edit]

Translations [edit]

See also [edit]