house furnishings
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of house furnishings
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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The month brought slight rises in rental and fuel costs, but they were offset by price cuts in clothing, house furnishings and automobiles.
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
Total figures above do not include damage to sea walls, docks, bridges, highways, floating equipment, crops, farming machinery, house furnishings, personal property and the like.
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
Taste in house furnishings or in clothes or in selecting a cook, is as nothing compared to taste in people!
From Etiquette by Emily Post
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