English Dictionary

finery

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfaɪnəɹi/

名詞

可算名詞 廃用 不可算名詞

(obsolete) Fineness; beauty. / (countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. / fine point; minute characteristic

日本語の意味

（古語）優雅さ、美しさ / 装飾、特に過剰な装飾、派手な衣装、宝石類 / 微細な特徴、細部

Scholars debating the medieval letter noted that the author's use of finery indicated the quality of the material rather than ornament.

中世の書簡を論じる学者たちは、著者が用いる語が装飾ではなく素材の上質さを示していると指摘した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.

意味（2）

(countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings.

意味（3）

fine point; minute characteristic

the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries

意味（4）

(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

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.

fineries （ plural ）