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finery

noun as in best clothing

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Example Sentences

Instead, she met her end defiantly, dressing in her finery and applying kohl to her eyes while awaiting her murderers.

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My character navigates through a royal court that she doesn’t belong to, and there’s the threat of violence at every turn amid all this pomp, ceremony and finery—her biggest struggle is just to stay alive.

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Frances Conroy’s romance novelist is something between Magenta from Rocky Horror and Bridezilla with all the dazzling finery of a Drag Race contestant.

Caroline Baudelaire was a good-looking woman who delighted in dressing in her finery when going out at night.

Fifteen men clad in wedding finery, mostly from the Dagestan Republic, were detained.

Burton quickly proved that she has the technical skill and imagination to conjure dramatic runway finery.

The men, in their coat and tails, and women, in all their finery, are forced to hop and ribbit.

Nancy Reagan was a passionate fashionista in her borrowed finery from Adolfo and Galanos.

There was no finery in her wardrobe, a few neat cotton gowns for summer wear, and homespun for the winter—that was all.

Most of the farmers wore linen dusters and broad straw hats, but their women had put on all their finery.

The females of these people were very ragged and dirty, and at the same time loaded with finery.

There it appears among the rugged doggrel, a piece of continental finery stitched into the homely Saxon garb.

And what with the wedding which mamma always insists upon, and the bridal finery she bestows, the burden is redoubled.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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