finery
noun
[ ˈfʌɪn(ə)ri ]
• expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration.
• "officers in their blue, gold, and scarlet finery"
Similar:
regalia,
elaborate/best clothes,
garb,
best,
Sunday best,
splendour,
showiness,
gaudiness,
trumpery,
frippery,
adornment,
trappings,
decorations,
glad rags,
best gear,
best bib and tucker,
clobber,
apparel,
fallalery,
Opposite:
rags,
Origin:
late 17th century: from fine1, on the pattern of bravery .
finery
noun
• a hearth where pig iron was converted into wrought iron.
Origin:
late 16th century: from French finerie, from Old French finer ‘refine’.
