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?
