finery

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 centuries of French finery to draw on, the Palais Galliera, the city’s fashion museum, regularly mounts temporary exhibitions to showcase its fragile collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Every night, the gentlemen suit up and the ladies don their finery, although nothing is as fancy as when the family hosts balls or extremely fancy dinners for special guests.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

Besides, he reveled in the respect that he received, dressed as he was in such barbaric finery.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

The trio invaded the lace shop, and Nora and her mother agreed to bury the war-hatchet in their mutual love of Venetian and Florentine fineries.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller