finery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun elaborate or showy attire and accessories

WordNet

Fin"er*y noun
Definitions
  1. Fineness; beauty. Obs.
    Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.
  2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
    Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.
  3. Cf. Refinery. (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

Webster 1913