house furnishings

American  

plural noun

1. the furnishings of a household, as rugs, chairs, or draperies.

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Etymology

Origin of house furnishings

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Metals and metal products remained unchanged at 130; building materials at 169; and house furnishings at 171.

From Time Magazine Archive

And always house furnishings are noted, with the piercing significance and tenderness that made Amy Lowell so distinctly a poet of her time and place, racy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a year, food costs in large cities had risen 31%, clothing was up 18%, house furnishings 17%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today, Textron is integrated from raw yarn to finished product; it covers the field of house furnishings and clothing, employs its own designers, chooses its own retail outlets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Candlesticks seem always to have been considered a part of the house furnishings in America, for we find accounts of them in the earliest records of the colonies.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.