Word Meanings - FINERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;

Additional info about word: FINERY

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. 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. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FINERY)

• Frippery
• Trumpery
• finery
• tawdriness
• Gaud
• Trinket
• trumpery
• gewgaw
• bauble
• kickshaw
• gimcrack
• whim

Related words: (words related to FINERY)

• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRINKETRY
  Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• BAUBLE
  It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus,a baburrus, 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan. 2. The fool's
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• KICKSHAW
  See SINGULAR
• KICKSHAWS
  something, fr. L. gualis of what kind + suffix - 1. Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak. 2. A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy. Some pigeons, . . . a joint of mutton, and any pretty
• FRIPPERY
  1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes
• TRUMPERY
  1. Deceit; fraud. Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to
• TRINKET
  A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.
• GIMCRACK
  A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. Arbuthnot.
• REFINERY
  1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. 2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.