Togs vs Finery - What's the difference?
togs | finery | Related terms |
(UK, plural only) Clothes.
:: 'Look at his togs', Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his ' togs ! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'
(with noun qualifier, plural only) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.
A swimsuit.
(tog)
(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:
Togs is a related term of finery.
As nouns the difference between togs and finery
is that togs is while finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.As a verb togs
is (tog).togs
English
Noun
(head)- 1837-39 , ,
- gardening togs''', swimming '''togs
Synonyms
* (clothes for specific occasion or use) bathers, cossie, swimmersVerb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----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.