moeble

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French moeble, mueble (“movable”), from Latin mōbilis.

Noun

moeble (plural moebles)

1. movable wealth or treasure
2. (in the plural) movable goods, personal possessions
   • c. 1387, Thomas Usk, chapter VIII, in The Testament of Love Book I:

     For that she is so worthye thou shuldest not clymbe so hygh, for thy moebles and thyne estate arne voyded.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: (obsolete) moble

Further reading

• “moeble, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.