finery
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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
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
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
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
I put on my gaudy red finery, and was driven with Shusgis to the supper-party in his chauffeured private car.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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