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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

For my mother, the trove of household possessions we were able to bring with us, which included books, china, silverware, furniture, clothes and the like, were all important.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2013

His relics—his household possessions, his books, his clothes, his bones, retain the shadowy sanctity which they received in having once belonged to him.

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude


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