Antonyms for finery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fahy-nuh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfaɪ nə ri |
Definition of finery
Origin :- 1670s, "showy dress," from fine (adj.) + -ery. Literally, "something that is fine."
- noun best clothing
- The poor Frenchmen looked like peacocks in their dress, but we did not envy them their finery.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Princess asked her to bring her ball dress and all the rest of her finery.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
- It is a sin to wear woman's finery; or it breeds sin in women.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
- In young girls we observe coquetry and jealousy and the desire for finery.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Youth, beauty, health, finery and flirtation excite the sexual appetite.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- She knew all sorts of games, and invented all sorts of finery with leaves and shreds of rags.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- At her side rode her brother, a splendid blaze of finery, falcon on wrist.
- Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
- Henry said that he did not want to hear any more of Miss Crosbie and her finery.
- Extract from : « The Fairchild Family » by Mary Martha Sherwood
- They found the little girl, in all her finery, weeping on the bed.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- But how to get quit of the finery, and the Frenchman, and the britschka?
- Extract from : « Town Versus Country » by Mary Russell Mitford
Synonyms for finery
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