Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) Elaborate or ornamental clothing and accessories.
2. (n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
3. (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Strong's Hebrew
5716. adi -- ornaments... excellent, mouth, ornament. From adah in the sense of trappings;
finery; generally
an outfit; specifically, a headstall -- X excellent, mouth, ornament.
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"A Low, Soft, Solemn Sound"
... principles of religion. But I observe in them all the love of finery. Be
they ever so poor, they must have a scrap of finery. Many of ...
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Letter xiv. Dress.
... The love of finery displayed by many of the females of our congregations, some of
whom are professors of religion, is directly at variance with these passages ...
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Against Embellishing the Body.
... our inclinations. Love of dainties and love of wine, though great vices,
are not of such magnitude as fondness for finery. [1584 ...
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Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... Counsels, of perfection, [3247]521. Courtesans, finery of, [3248]433. Covetousness ...
538. Dress, finery in, gives occasion of offense, [3295]434. ...
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Theodosius.
... repentance. One of these sins was vanity, and love of finery and pleasure;
and another was their irreverent behaviour at church. ...
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On Clothes.
... whom Homer, to show their effeminancy, calls "Long-robed." Those, therefore, who
are devoted to the image of the beautiful, that is, love of finery, not the ...
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Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... [1595] For not being free of the love of finery, they are not in health; but inclining
to voluptuousness, they become effeminate, cutting their hair in an ...
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Naparima and Montserrat
... of me, of a row of smartest Paris bonnets, net-lace shawls, brocades, and satins,
fit for duchesses; and as the centre of each blaze of finery"'offam non ...
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Colossians iii. 18-25
... For to see a man of a nature greater than human, and having nought of man, but an
angel upon earth, is more admirable than to see a woman decked with finery. ...
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The Runaway
... What was the Lord Stanislaus doing, dressed in this unusual finery, at such an
unearthly hour! "Listen," said Stanislaus, "I am going out for the day. ...
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Thesaurus
Finery (2 Occurrences)... iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. Multi-Version Concordance
Finery (2 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 1:24 You daughters of Israel
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Flash (19 Occurrences)
... strength to liquors. 13. (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and
vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. 14. (a.) Wearing ...
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Fines (1 Occurrence)
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