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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'finery' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions finery noun  fineness, Fineness; beauty. Obs. ornament, Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Cf. Refinery. (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. Quotations 1957: In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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