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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

"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

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

And it displeased me greatly; therefore I cast all the household possessions of Tobiah out of the chamber.

From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster




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