Crossword clues for furnishings
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
furnishings \fur"nish*ings\ n.
the furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable.
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accessory wearing apparel.
Syn: trappings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
articles of furniture, c.1600, plural verbal noun from furnish (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of furnishing English)Category:English plurals 2 The objects, other than furniture, that occupy an interior space. 3 accessory used with a dress. 4 Items of furniture and/or accessories by which something is equipped so as to be more useful, convenient, or comfortable.
WordNet
n. the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable
accessory wearing apparel [syn: trappings]
Usage examples of "furnishings".
This pleasant blue room with its heavy wooden furnishings was the antithesis of the institution asylum cottage.
The furnishings, the heavy chairs and chests, were the wrong shapes and there were enormous shields on the walls, their metallic designs picking up what light there was.
The main room was palatial compared to Dalkey's, but it had been furnished in a totally haphazard fashion: the furnishings and decorations were obviously expensive but were placed in awkward groupings or hung without care or taste.
His furnishings were lavishly decorated and suited to Hrruban anatomy.
The cabin walls and furnishings receded to specks in the distance, then swam around him, huge menacing free-flowing shapes.
The cell was featureless save for its minimal furnishings, a neutral-gray box of ship metal.
The furnishings looked expensive and inviting, if you liked the minimalist style—Joat herself had always thought desks and chair-seats looked better with legs beneath them, rather than floating in suspension-fields.
The furnishings were rich beefleather and pale wood, austerely simple so as not to distract from the impact of the room itself.
The two councillors, Big Eyes and Big Voice, documented the building and furnishings in their admirably minute shorthand.
Inside the furnishings were being thrown about and broken, people were slugging and slugged, trampled and hurt as uncertain tempers erupted.
The furnishings, such as they were, provided the bookie with a desk that was more like a nineteenth-century clerk's stand (to fit in the cramped space), a stool, and pencil files neatly arranged in cubbyholes on the walls.
So he walked on to the end and opened the door into a large lounge room, subtly decorated with 'Dim artifacts and Human-type furnishings, a thick plain green carpet on the floor--restful.
She keyed the Guild's commissary, ordered additional furnishings, rugs of the Ghni weavers, and by 1400, when Concera touched her door chime, Killashandra had wall-screens that mixed the most unlikely elements from an ice-world to the raving flora of the voracious Eobaron planets.
Looking around the room at the four identical felines lounging on various furnishings, she added with a slight smile, "I have extras.
Single pallets stuffed with fluff weed, spare blankets, a rough box to hold possessions and two stools comprised the furnishings of the one Zainal and Kris took.