finery - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • see: No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper.

Adjective modifier

  • funeral: Such concepts have little power in this moody ménage of funeral finery.
  • other: The security of the University Mace and the other finery is also down to us.
  • own: Arrive in your own finery or choose from a wide selection of our costumes.
  • good: Christmas is coming up soon and it's time to dress in your best finery for the season.

Noun used with modifier

  • summer: We all sat in our summer finery drinking champers in the garden.
  • breeding: There'll be Slavonian Grebe with Red-throated and Black-throated Diver, often still in their breeding finery.
  • winter: High in the Cairngorm Mountains, Ptarmigan are adorned in their white winter finery.

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