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How a room admits it has feelings.

means The movable items—furniture, fixtures, and fittings—that equip a room or building for use and comfort.

from From 'furnish,' borrowed via Old French 'furnir/fournir' meaning to provide or equip, itself from a Germanic root related to 'frumjan,' to further or carry out. The sense drifted from the general act of supplying or completing something to the specific stocking of a room with the objects that make it livable — chairs, tables, curtains — so that 'furnishing' came to mean both the act of equipping and, eventually, the things themselves.

legal meaning
also means supplying proof or evidence
verb root
from furnish, meaning to complete or equip
economic signal
first thing cut when money gets tight
betrays owner
reveals taste faster than conversation does
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