furniture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The movable items such as chairs, tables, and beds that make a room ready to use.

   They had too much furniture for the small apartment.

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Simplified etymology

Furniture is recorded from the early 16th century and is related to furnish and veneer. Veneer entered English through German furnieren from Old French furnir, meaning “to furnish,” and was based on the idea of furnishing a piece of furniture with a thin surface.

From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).

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