Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping. Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground), or to store things.
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Famous quotes containing the word furniture:
“In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete; being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The rest might wait. The preparations of new carriages and furniture might wait for London and the spring, when her own taste could have fairer play.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Look inwardmerica.
Move our own furniture into the house.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)