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

The ship, the Sea Lady said, dropped into the abyss as if it were loaded with lead, and its crew and other movables did not follow it down until much later in the day.

From The Sea Lady by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I know the court, and thee, and thy use, and how you serve but as the handsomest movables; a kind of implement above-stairs, and look much like one of the old court-servants in the hangings.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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

His books, movables, trifles, everything were sold for bread; and his wife sunk under the horrors of their situation, and became insane. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch