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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, noun; pl. {Movables}.
1. An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. [Also spelled {moveable}.]
Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. --Evelyn.
2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
Note: The word is not convertible with personal property, since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are personal property by our law are immovables by the Roman law. --Wharton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "movables": accessories, appanages, appendages, appointments, appurtenances, belongings, chattels, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, effects, goods, lares and penates, material things, paraphernalia, perquisites, personal effects, things, trappings
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