FURNITURE
ADJECTIVES
► NAUGHTY of antique furniture: being passed off as something better or other than it is → 1971 Brit. sl.
NOUNS
► DOMICILS household furniture → 1899 Amer. dial.
► FRAGGING furniture and similar needfuls → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► GANGRELS furniture, movables → 1873 Sc.
► GARNITURE furniture, outfit, appurtenances → 1532
► HARNESS household and personal equipment; furniture; apparel → 1340 obs.
► HOUSEHOLDMENTS household furniture; household effects → 1676
► HUSTLEMENTS furniture → c1374 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► INSETT STUFF household furniture → Bk1902 Eng. dial. obs.
► INSIGHTS the furniture of a house; household goods → 1792 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► INSPRAITH furniture, household goods → 1660 Sc.
► KITTIES ► KITTYS one’s furniture or household effects → L18 sl.
► OMNIUM a piece of furniture with open shelves for receiving ornamental articles, etc. → 19C
► ORDINANCE material adjuncts, apparatus, furniture → 1475 obs.
► STICKS furniture → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► SUPELLECTILE furniture; scientific apparatus or equipment → 1597 obs.
► SUPELLEX household furniture → 1553
► TIMBER an article of furniture; furniture → 1857 Sc.
► TRAPS belongings, personal property; things; goods, furniture → 1813
NOUNS – PERSON
► CABINET-MAKER one whose business it is to make cabinets, and the finer kind of joiner’s work; a maker of furniture → 1681
► DABBLER a black marketeer in furniture → 1940s furniture trade usage
► DOGWRIGHT a person who repairs old furniture → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WORM-EATER a skilful workman drilling minute holes in bogus antique furniture to simulate wormholes → 1880s cabinet-makers’ usage
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