finery

Men dressed as pirates follow along in their own finery.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Amanda Gladu’s handsome costumes underlined the contrast between Blanche’s finery and the everyday wear of the other characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

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

Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

No one thought to escort her off stage, strip her of her fineries, and save us all this torture?

From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2015

Lauren visited the fineries of Asian fashion in bright-dragon embroideries, silks and satins, and the perfect fit of a slim silhouette.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2011

There were among them cards and dice, fineries of women's dress, looking-glasses, bad books, musical instruments, pictures, and statues.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson