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article of furniture

n. furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" [syn: furniture, piece of furniture]

Usage examples of "article of furniture".

Each girl now placed herself with one hand touching a bedstead or some article of furniture, and as Clara turned her back to any of us we would slip slyly up behind and give a fine spanking slap on her bottom, making it assume a rosy flush all over.

In this devotional article of furniture were stored all the inmost secrets of her profligate career.

Aside from a couple of hologram stands behind the chair, it was the only article of furniture in the room.

His general appearance put me in mind of some familiar article of furniture—.

They at the same time paint upon pieces of paper human figures to represent attendants with horses and other animals, dresses of all kinds, money, and every article of furniture.

The other man ignored her, which was the attitude most physicians took with nurses and what made it such an effective disguise, almost as good as making oneself look like an article of furniture.

Like the desk, that article of furniture contained only the things normal to a business establishment like this one.

On neither occasion had Som shown her any more interest than he might have bestowed upon an article of furniture.