FFE

Noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

1. (usually) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
   • The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
2. (usually) The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
   • We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,[…]and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
3. (usually) Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
   • […]a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.1994, Philip Haythornthwaite, British Cavalryman 1792-1815, →ISBN, page 30
4. (obsolete, usually) An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
   • A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhed
     With Natures pride, and richeſt furniture?
     His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods,
     His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
5. (usually) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
6. (historical, usually) The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.

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