Noun

(en noun)

(archaic, or, literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

* William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXII, 5,6.

''For all that beauty that doth cover thee

Is but the seemly raiment of my heart

* {{quote-book

, year = 1866 , first = Algernon , last = Swinburne , authorlink = Algernon Swinburne , title = Aholibah , section = lines 11-12 , passage = Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
With silk to wear on hands and feet }}

* {{quote-web

, date = 2006-12-24 , title = The Courtier's Reply , first = PZ , last = Myers , authorlink = PZ Myers , site = , url = http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/the_courtiers_reply.php , accessdate = 2011-10-30 , passage = We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion... }}

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.