Australian English Vocabulary - Furniture

Furniture

Australians use the British English terms of cupboard and wardrobe for furniture in which clothes or other items are stored. Australians recognise the American term closet, but mostly associate it with the phrase coming out of the closet.

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Famous quotes containing the word furniture:

    And then he would lift this finest
    of furniture to his big left shoulder
    and tuck it in and draw the bow
    so carefully as to make the music

    almost visible on the air.
    Stanley Plumly (b. 1939)

    There I was dragging the ocean, that knock-out,
    in and out by its bottle-green neck, letting it chew
    the rocks, letting it haul beach glass and furniture sticks
    in and out.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)