finery
Example Sentences
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Instead, Borrowed Finery is a kind of transcription of memory in its strange spottiness.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019
"The likes of Mint Velvet, Finery and Modern Rarity are all targeting a similar customer," she says.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2018
"My life was incoherent to me," Fox wrote in "Borrowed Finery."
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2017
Something like this Finery dress – being wine-coloured already – is perfect.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2016
I regard Money but as a Ticket which admits me to your Delicate Entertainments; to me much more Agreeable than all the Monkey-Tricks of Rival Harlequins, or Puppet-Show Finery of Contending Theatres.
From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.
Vocabulary lists containing finery
Beowulf
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