Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of furnishing.
  • noun A supply of furniture or things necessary.

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

  • noun obsolete The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
  • noun obsolete furniture

Etymologies

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furnish +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • However, the continued combat situation in Iraq has made furnishment of this level of support financially unfeasible for contractors, so a mutually agreeable (with the ROC) system of registering movements and using transponders has developed.

    David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 15: Coordination is Easier Said Than Done 2010

  • However, the continued combat situation in Iraq has made furnishment of this level of support financially unfeasible for contractors, so a mutually agreeable (with the ROC) system of registering movements and using transponders has developed.

    David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 15: Coordination is Easier Said Than Done 2010

  • MILES O'BRIEN: There's a little bit of a-- well furnishment reality.

    CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2006 2006

  • Kei and Kato are then teleported (alive and well) to a room filled with other not so lucky people (and dog) where the only furnishment is a giant black ball.

    Gantz, Complete Anime Series Review | The Anime Blog 2006

  • Whereupon a goodly and well-armed Ship was prepared for her, with full furnishment of all necessary provision, and accompanied with an honourable traine both of Lords and Ladies, as also most costly and sumptuous accoustrements; commending her to the mercy of heaven, in this maner was she sent away.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Restagnone being returned to Folco and Hugnetto, who thought everie houre a yeare, to heare what would succeede upon the promise past between them; he told them in plain termes, that their Ladies were as free in consent as they, and nothing wanted now, but furnishment for their sodaine departing.

    The Decameron 2004

  • There was no retrenchment to be made, for military inspectors ran from day to day through the hospitals, and watched over the furnishment and the service of the various houses.

    The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

  • With movables and all kinde of furnishment, befitting a house of such outward apparance, hee caused it to be plentifully stored onely to receive, entertaine, and honor all Gentlemen or other

    The Decameron 2004

  • Being instructed in the way, and not finding any to walke along with him; fearing, if he went without some furnishment, and should stay long there for his dinner, he might (perhaps) complaine of hunger: he therefore carried three loaves of bread with him, knowing that he could meet with water every where, albeit he used to drinke but little.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And for this end the furnishment of the mind with the graces before mentioned is the best preparation.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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