Finery

She got home, but quite out of breath, without her carriage, and in her old clothes, having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers, fellow to the one she had dropped.

"But it hurts so!" said the little mermaid. "You must endure the pain for the sake of the finery!" said her grandmother.

A fine layer of dust covered the finery in the wardrobe, evidence of how long it had been since she last attended a gala.

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.

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

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.