Vinery vs Finery - What's the difference?
vinery | finery |
vineyard
(obsolete) A structure, usually enclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.
(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 obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between vinery and finery
is that vinery is (obsolete) a structure, usually enclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery while finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.As nouns the difference between vinery and finery
is that vinery is vineyard while finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.vinery
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(vineries)finery
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- 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.