(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The post-breakfast gathering of guests, dressed in their hunting finery would meet front of house to witness the Prince of Wales assign the "male gun" position and partner for the day's shooting.
(2) Neighbours, however, were happy to pay tribute to him and recalled the sight of him dressed in his finery heading off for his wedding.
(3) "No one would immediately size you up when you walked in the door, so gay men would drop in without having to be done up in our finery," says Tony, a long-term regular.
(4) The ecclesiastical finery is accessorised with chinos and a pair of black and grey-checked slip-on trainers, worn without socks.
(5) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
(6) The traditional (and pre-recorded) new year address, in which the president sits behind a desk and talks straight to camera amid the finery of the Élysée Palace, has become a set piece of French politics, intensely scrutinised for its ability to set the nation's mind at ease over the difficulties of the coming year.
(7) The preparations here today are part of the band's album launch extravaganza, two semi-secret shows for 3,000 people, that will be replicated in Los Angeles and Miami, with attendees requested to dress up in their finery, and for which tickets have been swapping hands for up to a rumoured $5,000 (£3,100).
Regalia
Definition:
(n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
(n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc.
(n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies.
(n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tendi estimated rally turnouts at 15-20,000 people, with free regalia and food suggesting Zanu-PF has more cash than last time.
(2) Good for a laugh, waving pistols, sporting first world war military regalia, delivering bloodcurdling speeches to anyone who would listen.
(3) Irrespective of the unsavoury nature of Terre'Blanche's racialised ideology and approximation of Nazi regalia, South Africa's constitution , arguably the most liberal document in the world, provided explicitly for a political space for dissidents and dinosaurs.
(4) Her role hasn't been announced, but she's in 60s hippie regalia : a purple flower dress and sandals.
(5) The liveliest are the wholesale spice market of Khari Baoli, the jewellery market of Dariba Kalan, and Kinari Bazaar, the dazzling wedding regalia market.
(6) Yunupingu thanked the delegation for making the journey to Gulkula in full academic regalia.
(7) We must have seemed as odd to them as they did to us, in their Nazi regalia, dancing in formation like dummies.
(8) An archbishop announced to the crowd that the funeral would be held in three days' and in the meantime Shenouda's body would be put on display in the cathedral, sitting in the Mar Morqos or St Mark throne from which the pope in his elaborate regalia traditionally oversaw services.
(9) Maybe it’s time to let go of it, look forward and see what we can find.” Goat have also found themselves having to bat away accusations that wearing increasingly extravagant tribal regalia is, at best, cultural appropriation and, at worst, a kind of cosmic minstrelism.
(10) His wife Grace wore similar party regalia, but her dress bore two large portraits of the president.
(11) Less than an hour after Mandela's death was announced, however, ANC supporters in party colours and regalia were among those rallying outside his house singing liberation-era songs .
(12) The marchers themselves were decked out in full regalia, with white gloves, buttons and braiding.
(13) Shenouda's body lay in a white casket in the elaborate regalia he traditionally wore to oversee services, complete with an ornate golden crown.
(14) A particular scene that will no doubt cross the sex divide is that of Maya Rudolph , as a bride-to-be in full wedding regalia, suffering an acute case of food poisoning in the middle of the road.
(15) Colin Ashford, who makes cufflinks, medals and regalia for Freemasons, in a Victorian workshop, doubted the government's figures on jobs and growth.
(16) In front of small crowd of assembled onlookers in front of the historic Fraunces Tavern and accompanied by a fife-and-drum quartet decked out in full colonial regalia, city officials ushered in the event with a brief set of remarks.
(17) Wearing black and yellow regalia, the king was sworn in after inspecting a military honour guard and receiving a 21-gun salute at parliament.
(18) The full regalia, including the horsemen’s nagaika leather whip, costs around $100.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Prince of Wales dressed in his investiture regalia in 1969.
(20) A big demonstration was held in front of the federal courthouse, with drummers, Aztec dancers in feathered regalia, people holding signs, and a TV station interviewing Nieto’s friend Benjamin Bac Sierra.