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finery

noun as in best clothing

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They said she had dressed up in her bridal finery and led a procession around the village streets, before climbing into the pyre of Maal Singh, her husband of seven months.

From BBC

When they died, around 510 B.C.E., they were nearly 2 meters tall and buried 10 kilometers apart in two fine graves, surrounded by gilded drinking horns, rich cloth, and finery of gold, amber, and ivory.

The majestic entry is typically reserved for stars dressed in their finery, but the official red carpet had not yet been rolled out.

Mona looked me up and down and saw my finery was new.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is here, too, with his bourgeois couple in sumptuous evening finery taking in an evening of theater from their box high above the stage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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