(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).
Winery
Definition:
(n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In October, the Sussex-based Bolney Wine Estates announced a £2m investment to fund further production through a new winery and major expansion into the US, Scandinavia and Asia.
(2) Historically, this was the farm and winery of the château of Saint-Victor des Oules, but it's been sympathetically converted into eight houses and apartments (sleeping from two to six people) by its British owners Emma and Michael Crane, who moved here with their young family in 2012.
(3) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(4) We arrive at Matosevic winery and collapse in the shade of a cherry tree.
(5) In order to prove this, the average values for the rosé and red wine samples from the same winery were compared.
(6) Photograph: Nick Gregan Typical of Istria's garage wineries, Matosevic is small, – really just a farmhouse – but from crushing to aging and bottling, everything is done here.
(7) Individual winery methods are suggested as primarily responsible for variations in mutagenic activity.
(8) The move away from mass-produced beer is integral to a broader trend that encompasses locavore and farm-to-table eating, community-supported agriculture and urban wineries.
(9) The market change started more than 10 years ago & now the vast majority of wine is shipped in this manner by wineries, wine clubs, and wine retailers.
(10) Famously fertile, over 110 small-scale wineries and 145 olive oil producers have sprung up across the region in the last 20 years, developing its reputation as Croatia's best corner for foodies.
(11) A brand new selection of 48 vintage and non-vintage wines will will go on sale in its 600 UK supermarket branches in September, followed by bottles from theworld-renowned Châteauneuf-du-Pape wineries.
(12) Photograph: Alamy Where to stay The Ikarian Winery Eccentric Ikaria takes a little getting to know, and there is no better place to do that than at this agri-tourism-themed vineyard near the island’s north coast.
(13) The breadth of activity that may be encompassed by the term ‘parliamentary business’ in the determination means that the prosecution had to disprove the rational possibility that the appellant travelled to the various wineries, for example, for purposes of informing himself about those businesses as part of his function as a parliamentarian, based upon his judgment of the need for such travel for that purpose,” he said.
(14) Slipper, the former Speaker, had a conviction for misusing taxpayer-funded taxi vouchers for visits to Canberra region wineries struck out in the appeal.
(15) Kerry praised the “leadership that [Leanca] and his government are providing.” “While I was in Moldova I had occasion to visit a really quite remarkable winery,” Kerry said, an underground facility that represented activity that could rejuvenate the economy.
(16) It’s not a party, but a state of mind | Anne Perkins Read more Over English sparkling wine supplied from Lord Ashcroft’s Gusbourne winery in Kent and canapes of coronation chicken and roast beef, Farage’s achievements were celebrated by a crowd that included Tory Eurosceptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and John Mills, the businessman and Labour donor.
(17) The detection of a collection site difference in GPO enzyme activity in the isogenic lines suggests that polymorphic variation on the second chromosome is responsible for the differentiation at the winery.
(18) Hence, individual winery production practices must represent the most significant contribution to the variations observed.
(19) Southern analysis of the Adh region of 212 Drosophila melanogaster lines collected from the Tahbilk winery revealed linkage disequilibrium between a 37-bp insertion [designated delta 2 by Kreitman (1983)] and the fast electrophoretic variant of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH-F).
(20) At the time of Abbott’s repayment in October 2013, Slipper claimed he was the victim of double standards over a case involving $954 in taxi vouchers to visit wineries outside Canberra in 2010.