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  • noun Plural form of movable.

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Examples

  • And they literally are "movables", as Vial products are extraordinarily easy to transport.

    DESIGNSPOTTER 2009

  • "movables," including under this term, Furniture, and more especially

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various

  • Testimony concerning the sale of movables is more lenient but does require the status of majority.

    Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, hangings, glasses, even to the pincushions and scent – bottles on the dressing – tables, displayed the same quaint variety.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Nor are they desirous to prolong their visit, packing the few movables with all possible speed and never speaking above a whisper.

    Bleak House 2007

  • If they die without children, their wealth belongs to the lord; if they leave children, the lord takes only the finest cattle and, according to more than one custom, the most valuable movables.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • This story is worthy of the calumniators who stated that Julian had sacrificed a woman to the moon, and that after his death a large chest was found among his movables filled with human heads.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Upon one occasion, in particular, when she joked with the Laird on the propriety of giving a mistress to the house of Dumbiedikes, he was so effectually startled, that neither laced hat, tobacco-pipe, nor the intelligent proprietor of these movables, visited Woodend for a fortnight.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Properly speaking, avarice is the desire of accumulating, whether in grain, movables, money, or curiosities.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that the

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

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  • I also see this spelled as moveables.

    January 6, 2009

  • Compare Spanish muebles.

    April 23, 2009

  • And Swedish möbler.

    April 23, 2009