noun.
A piece of equipment necessary or useful for comfort or convenience.
noun.
The furniture, appliances, and other movable articles in a home or other building.
noun.
Wearing apparel and accessories.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of providing with furniture or fittings of any kind.
noun.plural Fittings of any kind; especially, the smaller articles used in fitting up anything, as a building, vehicle, etc.: as, builders' or upholsterers' furnishings.
noun.
A subsidiary appendage or adjunct; an incidental part.
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noun.
(usually plural) accessory wearing apparel
noun.
(usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable
noun.
the act of decorating a house or room
Word Usage
"Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place."