finery

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FI'NERY, noun 1. Show; splendor; gaiety of colors or appearance; as the finery of a dress. 2. Showy articles of dress; gay clothes, jewels, trinkets, etc. 3. In iron-works, the second forge at the iron-mills. [See Finary.]
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