furnish
verb (used with object)
to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
furnisher
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a word derived from
furnish.
Example Sentences
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Very well," responded Talbot, "now let's go to the best furnisher we can find.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
Since his failure, his father had earned his livelyhood, by letting himself out as a mute, or mourner, to a furnisher of funerals.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various
Such a state of affairs would be almost humiliating, almost like the parvenu who calls in the wholesale furnisher and decorator to provide him with a home.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett
There was no way of heating it in the original plan, but Throckmorton’s decorator and furnisher had hit upon the plan of having a quaint Dutch stove, which now glowed redly with a hard-coal fire.
From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell
Hepworth's clerk, Ellenby, an elderly man—of the type that one generally describes as of gentlemanly appearance—was accustomed to his master being away unexpectedly on business, which was that of a ships' furnisher.
From The Fawn Gloves by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
