half-arrangement

Updated: August 18, 2026

And in each room was the same kind of blundering half-arrangement of furniture, and fire-irons and crockery, and all sorts of odd things on the floor, but there was nothing to eat; even in the pantry there were only a rusty cake-tin and a broken plate with whitening mixed in it. "What a horrid old woman!" said Mother; "she's just walked off with the money and not got us anything to eat at all."

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Railway Children