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household possessions

NOUN
lares and penates
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Surely you can tell the relatives that your granddaughter can’t use household possessions now.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022

Huang Qingjun spent nearly a decade travelling to remote parts of China photographing families outside their homes with all their household possessions.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2016

"What did anyone gain by this?" he asked, teetering atop a jumble of household possessions — flowered mattresses, pink dish towels, cracked dinner plates — piled into a donkey-drawn cart.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2014

Dammers has cited the sight of elderly women in Glasgow selling their household possessions on the street as the song's inspiration.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2011

While the guns were barking under the shade trees at the roadside stolid ox teams with carts loaded with household possessions were moving to the rear.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various




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