finery
Example Sentences
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With the glamorous catwalks, celebrities and excess of finery on display, the possibility of the recent investigations uncovering labour abuses being on anyone's mind appeared slim.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Every night, the gentlemen suit up and the ladies don their finery, although nothing is as fancy as when the family hosts balls or extremely fancy dinners for special guests.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
He looks out the window and says “There’s a parade, and a great princess is walking by in all her finery . . .”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
The remarkable thing is that Trump is fine with eliminating all this finery.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025
Mona looked me up and down and saw my finery was new.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing finery
Beowulf
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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Crossing the Wire
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