Finery vs Beautification - What's the difference?
finery | beautification | Related terms |
(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:
Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
Finery is a related term of beautification.
As nouns the difference between finery and beautification
is that finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty while beautification is making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.finery
English
Noun
- 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.
See also
* (charcoal hearth) refinerybeautification
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thanks to the beautification efforts, the highway's looks have vastly improved.
