finery
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The focal point of Ashenda festival, which traditionally draws thousands of young women dressed in their finery, was to be a mass gathering at a stadium in Mekelle on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
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 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
One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
Ogion had given him decent Gontish leggings and shirt and vest of leather and linen to replace his Osskilian finery, but Ged had kept for his winter journey the lordly cloak lined with pellawi-fur.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
She fingered the dainty pile of fineries on the bed.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing finery
Beowulf
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