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- noun Plural form of
movable .
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Examples
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And they literally are "movables", as Vial products are extraordinarily easy to transport.
DESIGNSPOTTER 2009
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"movables," including under this term, Furniture, and more especially
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Properly speaking, avarice is the desire of accumulating, whether in grain, movables, money, or curiosities.
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A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that the
hernesheir commented on the word movables
I also see this spelled as moveables.
January 6, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word movables
Compare Spanish muebles.
April 23, 2009
yarb commented on the word movables
And Swedish möbler.
April 23, 2009