moebles

English

Etymology

Old English, from Old French moeble (“movable”), mueble (“movable”), from Latin mobilis. Doublet of mobiles.

Noun

moebles pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete) movables; furniture
    • Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love, Book I, Chapter VIII.
      For that she is so worthye thou shuldest not clymbe so hygh, for thy moebles and thyne estate arne voyded.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for moebles in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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