Finery vs Pinery - What's the difference?
finery | pinery |
(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:
A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas ) and production of their homonymous fruit.
A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown
As nouns the difference between finery and pinery
is that finery is fineness; beauty while pinery is a hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.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.
