Definition of Furniture

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Furniture

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

The masts and rigging of a ship.

The mountings of a gun.

Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

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Furniture Quotations

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
Robin Williams

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Fran Lebowitz

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Noel Coward

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.
Noel Coward

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
Dee Hock

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

Furniture Translations

furniture in Dutch is huisraad, ameublement, inboedel
furniture in French is meublante, meubles
furniture in Italian is mobilia, mobili
furniture in Latin is suppellex suppellectilus, supellex supellectilis
furniture in Spanish is mobiliario, mueble

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