Definition of "article of furniture" [article of furniture]

• Furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There was every article of furniture looking just as it did on the morning I was first introduced to Mr. Brocklehurst: the very rug he had stood upon still covered the hearth."
• "At the time that the Directory were first installed in the Luxembourg (27th October 1795). "says M. Baileul," there was hardly a single article of furniture in it."
• "Michael sprawled in an uncomfortable position half on and half off the fainting couch that was a part of this guest room's furnishings-a more useless article of furniture I cannot imagine, as it is too big for sitting and too small for lying."