Finery vs. Refinery — What's the Difference?

Elaborate adornment, especially fine clothing and accessories.

A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.

(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.

An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance, such as petroleum or sugar.

(countable) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.

Fine point; minute characteristic

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

Fineness; beauty.

An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

Elaborate or showy attire and accessories