goods and chattels
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love,” she wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The workers departed, taking with them their goods and chattels, leaving only the empty huts behind.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Here their goods and chattels are unceremoniously transferred to the unsheltered wharf.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
The wagon, on which the refugee had been attempting to remove his goods and chattels from his threatened homestead, had fallen an easy target to the German guns.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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