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Finery vs Attire - What's the difference?

finery | attire |

As a noun finery

is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.

As a verb attire is

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finery

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
  • Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
  • (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * fine

    See also

    * (charcoal hearth) refinery

    attire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
    • He was wearing his formal attire .
  • (heraldiccharge) The single horn of a deer or stag.

    • Verb

  • To dress or garb.
    • We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.
    He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.

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