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

So that your food, your raiment, your lodging, your movables, are all represented by the sum of one hundred and twenty livres.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Then every house was a fortress, and even the churches were surrounded with palisades and ditches, behind which the women and children sought refuge with their movables when the alarm came too near.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

When the king was really dead, out came Louis to seize upon the plate and other movables of value.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce

And those who could not get away themselves were anxious to send, at least, wife and child and the best of their movables out of the town, which seemed doomed.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil