finery
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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
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
He looks out the window and says “There’s a parade, and a great princess is walking by in all her finery . . .”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
It is a quintessentially British tennis experience: punters dressed in their finery, Pimm's in full flow and a beautiful setting, with as much care taken of the flowers and greenery as the pristine courts.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
She went down in a heap, upended over a pile of finery brought down from the attic.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing finery
Beowulf
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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Crossing the Wire
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