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"Fineness; beauty."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Fineness; beauty."
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{
"ref": "1980, John A. Crow, The Epic of Latin America",
"text": "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.",
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"Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels."
],
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"(countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels."
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"_dis1": "1 88 1 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premjana",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "премяна"
},
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"_dis1": "1 88 1 11",
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"roman": "natrufenost",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
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],
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"english": "decoration",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
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"english": "clothes",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
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"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"word": "whakapaipai"
},
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"_dis1": "1 88 1 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubranstvo",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "убранство"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, Lieven D’hulst, Kaisa Koskinen, Translating in Town",
"text": "the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"fine point; minute characteristic"
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"ref": "1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 160",
"text": "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.",
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"A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling."
],
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"cast",
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],
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],
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"puddling",
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]
],
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"(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling."
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"word": "refinery"
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],
"topics": [
"arts",
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"hobbies",
"ironworking",
"lifestyle"
],
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"_dis1": "2 12 2 85",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pešt za rafinirane",
"sense": "charcoal hearth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пещ за рафиниране"
}
]
}
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"Fineness; beauty."
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"(obsolete) Fineness; beauty."
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],
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"Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels."
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"decoration",
"decoration"
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"(countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels."
],
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"countable"
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"ref": "2020, Lieven D’hulst, Kaisa Koskinen, Translating in Town",
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}
],
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"fine point; minute characteristic"
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling."
],
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[
"hearth",
"hearth"
],
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"furnace",
"furnace"
],
[
"cast",
"cast"
],
[
"wrought",
"wrought"
],
[
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"puddling"
]
],
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"(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"hobbies",
"ironworking",
"lifestyle"
]
}
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},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premjana",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "премяна"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "natrufenost",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "натруфеност"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "decoration",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"word": "kruusaus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "clothes",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "hepenet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "jewels",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "helyt"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"word": "whakapaipai"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubranstvo",
"sense": "excessive decoration, showy clothes, jewels",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "убранство"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pešt za rafinirane",
"sense": "charcoal hearth",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пещ за рафиниране"
}
],
"word": "finery"
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