Noun

(en-noun)

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.

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She had more jewellery ornamented about her than any three ladies needed.

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.