Příklady finery

• They are shown in their finery, with ribbons, bonnets or lacey collars adorning their meagre persons.

• Status-conscious gallants sought out the envious glances of those too poor to afford their finery.

• Rochester overemphasizes finery, or fine clothes and accessories.

• Even given the standards of eighteenth-century military uniforms, representations such as these emphasized the excessive finery of their dress and the effeminacy of their hairstyles and physical build.

• When they return from work they have tea, put on their finery.

• A nation measures its wealth not in jewellery and in finery but in the numbers of its well-fed and happy people.

• There we are spending priceless pounds on fopperies and fineries which no woman requires.

• When he talks about fineries and snobberies, does he want to eliminate the grammar school and to concentrate on the comprehensive school?

• They could still walk with all their finery.

• After all, if we are thinking of fineries and snobberies in education, the grammar school is one of those fineries and snobberies, at any rate in one aspect.

• Sophonisba is distinctly unhappy and when she appears in her finery at the betrothal ceremony she swoons and breaks the ceremonial vessel.

• At various times a water powered blast furnace existed as well as (intermittently) a finery forge.

• The women weave the best of traditional garments and adorn themselves with all their finery.

• Following out this idea, he discusses in a casuistic form food and drink, dress and love of finery, bodily exercises and social conduct.

• Dressed in finery is the minstrel, who smiles and asks why she is crying on her wedding day.