finery

There should be no single, all-powerful character around which a democracy revolves, so it is considered unseemly to lavish excessive finery on the head of state.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

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

Once dressed in their wedding finery in the palace of the local ruler, the young women parade through the streets of Shao before the mass wedding is blessed by the priest of Awon.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025

The door creaked open and Ignatius appeared in his pirate finery.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

While most festivalgoers don the likes of velvet, bodices, feathered caps and other fineries, Matthews and his friends coordinated peasant-inspired costumes in an effort to represent the everyman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022

The burial site, and particularly the crown and other fineries interred with the woman, hinted at a premodern European culture in which women might have held considerable power.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

A cathedral can endure the loss of its stained glass and other fineries, as has happened in Britain where all our cathedrals were vandalised in the Reformation and civil war.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2019

Beyond the constant dialectic between streetwear and ladylike fineries - the sweatshirts and pencil skirts were worn together - the collection was also playing with opacity and transparency.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2011

You economize so that you can later buy yourselves more fineries .

From The Comedienne by Edmund Obecny