finery

Example Sentences

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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

Senegalese influencer Khaby Lame took pocket watch finery to stunning heights.

From Salon • May 6, 2025

The remarkable thing is that Trump is fine with eliminating all this finery.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025

Me and Katherine still wear our finery from the night we were shanghaied, and these things I’m wearing are for looking pretty, not strolling through a frontier town.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland