What is furniture?

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping. Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground), or to store things.

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    And then he would lift this finest
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    so carefully as to make the music

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