Definitions for fineries

fineries fin·er·y

Spelling: [fahy-nuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈfaɪ nə ri/

Fineries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in fineries (eefiinrs).

Definitions for fineries

noun

  1. fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc.
  2. a hearth for converting cast iron into wrought iron; refinery.

Origin of fineries

First recorded in 1670-80; fine1 + -ery

Examples for fineries

The Princess asked her to bring her ball dress and all the rest of her finery.

Caroline Baudelaire was a good-looking woman who delighted in dressing in her finery when going out at night.

The men, in their coat and tails, and women, in all their finery, are forced to hop and ribbit.

Youth, beauty, health, finery and flirtation excite the sexual appetite.

In young girls we observe coquetry and jealousy and the desire for finery.

It is a sin to wear woman's finery; or it breeds sin in women.

At her side rode her brother, a splendid blaze of finery, falcon on wrist.

She knew all sorts of games, and invented all sorts of finery with leaves and shreds of rags.

Was Bjork consciously spoofing the notion of “swanning about” in finery, or is that giving her too much credit?

The poor Frenchmen looked like peacocks in their dress, but we did not envy them their finery.

Word Value for fineries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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