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furnishing, vbl. n.|ˈfɜːnɪʃɪŋ|
[f. furnish v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. furnish, in senses of the vb.; an instance of this. Also gerundial with omission of in.
1496–7Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 13 Preamble, The behouful chargis and expencis for the fornysshyng and contynuaunce of the same armyes. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cclxxxi. 421 For y⊇ furnysshyng of his vowe. 1668Lond. Gaz. No. 237/2 The Queen of Swadeland..for whom a Palace is already furnishing. 1691T. Hale Acc. New Invent. 35 Rudder-Irons..of this Company's furnishing. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. x. (1872) 61 Due furnishings began to be executed in it [a ship]. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 47 A complete furnishing for war.
attrib.1833Knickerbocker I. 157 Gardiner's magnificent furnishing establishment already totters on its base. 1848E. Bryant California i. 14 These I obtained at reasonable rates, of Messrs. Wilson & Clarke, who keep a general furnishing store for these expeditions. 1860Geo. Eliot Let. 20 Dec. in J. W. Cross Life (1885) II. xi. 282 Our curtains are not up and our oil-cloth is not down. Such is life, seen from the furnishing point of view! 1887Daily News 7 Feb. 2/5 General furnishing goods. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 18 Colours which shocked a few years ago are now accepted, and commonly found on furnishing and dress fabric.
b. concr. A sum of money furnished; a supply.
1833Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) II. lxxvi. §22. 432 The war..cost..in subsidies or furnishings to foreign powers, ten millions four hundred thousand pounds.
2. Decoration.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 63 Those two who thus in one conioyned goe and parrell white, white haue their furnishing. 1882Garden 3 June 394/3 The Fruiting Duckweed..is now largely used in London for what is termed ‘furnishing’. 1895Daily News 8 Apr. 6/7 Hats provided for young girls have a floral furnishing.
3. pl.
†a. Unimportant appendages; mere externals.
b. Articles of furniture; apparatus, etc.
c. (See quot. 1892.)
1605Shakes. Lear iii. i. 29 Something deeper, Whereof (perchance) these are but furnishings. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. v. (1865) I. 76 Now a Penitentiary, with treadmill and the other furnishings. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid ii, The furnishings were small and dainty. 1885Law Times LXXX. 113/1 All the furnishings of an hotel. 1891Daily News 23 Jan. 5/5 Carpets from Fontainebleau, furnishings from Saint Cloud. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Furnishings, Scotch term, equivalent to the English term ‘grindery’; that is, rivets, sprigs, &c., used by the men to fasten the bottoms of boots to the uppers; and also the materials used in the process of finishing. |