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
Clothing had risen 101.6%; food, 96.1%; house furnishings, 78%; fuel 19.5%.
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
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
And anyone who successfully selects his wall paper and house furnishings is drawing unconsciously, perhaps, on an intuitive knowledge of these fundamental facts.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph
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