movables

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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.

From Time Magazine Archive

Horses averaging from fifty to a hundred pounds each, if capable of drawing a wash-dirt cart or transporting a digger's movables from one mining district to another, were profitable plunder.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

The tax on movables was framed in a more systematic way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

The barber, coming down to business on the morrow, found his movables upon the sidewalk, neatly piled together and covered by tarpaulins against the weather.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

Above there, on the Upper Rhine, they call personal property movables, and so it is!

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold