finery
Example Sentences
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With centuries of French finery to draw on, the Palais Galliera, the city’s fashion museum, regularly mounts temporary exhibitions to showcase its fragile collection.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
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
It is a quintessentially British tennis experience: punters dressed in their finery, Pimm's in full flow and a beautiful setting, with as much care taken of the flowers and greenery as the pristine courts.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
Senegalese influencer Khaby Lame took pocket watch finery to stunning heights.
From Salon • May 6, 2025
There is Nurse O’Halloran, the midwife, all dressed up in her finery.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Vocabulary lists containing finery
Beowulf
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Crossing the Wire
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