finery
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Is finery a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of finery?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.Examples: "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."countable
3. (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary