The Collaborative International Dictionary
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. Movables.
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An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. [Also spelled moveable.]
Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
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(Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
Note: The word is not convertible with personal property, since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are personal property by our law are immovables by the Roman law.
--Wharton.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of movable English)
Usage examples of "movables".
The distribution of the spoil was regulated by a divine law: ^126 the whole was faithfully collected in one common mass: a fifth of the gold and silver, the prisoners and cattle, the movables and immovables, was reserved by the prophet for pious and charitable uses.