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Wardrobe vs Finery - What's the difference?

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Wardrobe is a related term of finery.


As nouns the difference between wardrobe and finery

is that wardrobe is a cabinet in which clothes may be stored while finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty.

As a verb wardrobe

is to provide (a film, a customer, etc) with clothing.

wardrobe

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cabinet in which clothes may be stored.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe .}}
  • The department (or people working in that department) that obtains and stores articles of clothing for use in theatrical or motion picture productions.
  • A collection of clothing.
  • The clothing one owns or needs, often for a specific purpose such as work.
  • Synonyms

    * (the piece of furniture) cupboard, closet (US ), press, shrank * (the clothing department) costume department

    Derived terms

    * wardrobe malfunction * wardrobe mistress

    See also

    * armoire * lowboy * tallboy

    Verb

    (wardrob)
  • To provide (a film, a customer, etc.) with clothing.
  • * 1954 , Billboard (11 December 1954, page 20)
  • impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

    Anagrams

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    finery

    English

    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.

    See also

    * (charcoal hearth) refinery