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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fur-ni-shing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɜr nɪ ʃɪŋ |
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Définition of furnishing
Origin :- mid-15c., from Middle French furniss-, present participle stem of furnir "furnish, accomplish," from Old French fornir (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fornire, alteration of *fromire, from West Germanic *frumjan "forward movement, advancement" (cf. Old High German frumjan "to do, execute, provide"), from Proto-Germanic *fram- "forwards" (see from). Meaning "to provide" (something) is from 1520s. Related: Furnished; furnishing.
- noun household object
- He began to make tentative suggestions as to their furnishing.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He had great hopes of furnishing equable weather to all the Earth.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- The furnishing of the house was a most important undertaking.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- It was only when I went to my bedroom that I realised the oversights which I had made in my furnishing.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- As yet, we have seen no arrangement for furnishing air to the chick.
- Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
- The latter are regarded as furnishing a type of excellence to which the former cannot attain.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- He dragged her from room to room, furnishing as he went along.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- He had got so far by this time that the furnishing was complete and they were installed.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- It is furnishing the power under which the enterprise operates.
- Extract from : « Creating Capital » by Frederick L. Lipman
- And by way of furnishing a description he sent a printed card, which I read.
- Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
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