English
Pronunciation
IPA|/�faɪn�ɹi/, SAMPA|/"faIn@ri/
Noun
finery
- fineness|Fineness; beauty. [Obs.]
- ornament|Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
- [Cf. Refinery.] (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
#:Quotations
#:*1957: 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. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160.
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