Examples of 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?