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finery

/fahy-nuh-ree/US // ˈfaɪ nə ri //UK // (ˈfaɪnərɪ) //

服饰,衣饰,衣着打扮,服装

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc.

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Examples

  • Frances Conroy’s romance novelist is something between Magenta from Rocky Horror and Bridezilla with all the dazzling finery of a Drag Race contestant.

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

  • Fifteen men clad in wedding finery, mostly from the Dagestan Republic, were detained.

  • Burton quickly proved that she has the technical skill and imagination to conjure dramatic runway finery.

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

  • Nancy Reagan was a passionate fashionista in her borrowed finery from Adolfo and Galanos.

  • There was no finery in her wardrobe, a few neat cotton gowns for summer wear, and homespun for the winter—that was all.

  • Most of the farmers wore linen dusters and broad straw hats, but their women had put on all their finery.

  • The females of these people were very ragged and dirty, and at the same time loaded with finery.

  • There it appears among the rugged doggrel, a piece of continental finery stitched into the homely Saxon garb.

  • And what with the wedding which mamma always insists upon, and the bridal finery she bestows, the burden is redoubled.