Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable.
  • noun accessory wearing apparel.

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  • noun Plural form of furnishing.
  • noun The objects, other than furniture, that occupy an interior space.
  • noun Accessories used with a dress.

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Examples

  • Seen many other designers styles that have been fab though, I quite like transparency in furnishings

    Create the Illusion of More Space with Transparency 2010

  • Cabin furnishings are top-notch, and the 4. 6-liter V8 and six-speed automatic are very impressive.

    Pricing: 2011 Hyundai Equus – Flagship luxury sedan undercuts the competition 2010

  • Quality of the furnishings is never more important than when it concerns to the stuff in kitchen.

    Kitchen Design 2009

  • A careful restoration from 2004-2006 included Rudolph's dropped covered walkway rebuilt between house and carport, built-in furnishings around living room pit rebuilt by hand to Rudolph's specs, restore the rolling walls along east side of house, fascia, overhangs, posts, screen porch off living room pit.

    May 2008 2008

  • For his part, my husband inherited a good portion of his furnishings from the home of his late mother (who he lived with and cared for up to the day of her passing).

    Miss Melanie's House 2007

  • This full-sized house and all its furnishings is made of paper elaborately folded.

    Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives 2005

  • These are the things like thriftiness, wise use of time, beauty in furnishings and cloth, availability for helping others, and for teaching her children, and so forth.

    Guiding the Home Part 2 2005

  • These are the things like thriftiness, wise use of time, beauty in furnishings and cloth, availability for helping others, and for teaching her children, and so forth.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • CNN. com reports that the US Bureau of Land Management is auctioning off the fixtures and furnishings from the famed Mustang Ranch bordello on eBay later this month.

    Boing Boing: June 15, 2003 - June 21, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The principal modification in the matter of school furnishings is the abolition of desks, and benches or stationary chairs.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

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