finery

Fineness; beauty.countableobsoleteuncountable

Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.countable

• The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings.

fine point; minute characteristiccountableuncountable

• the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.countableuncountable

• 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 proc