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单词 antique fair
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antique fair
C1. General use as a modifier (in singular and plural), designating an establishment or place concerned with the sale of antiques (sense B. 3a), as antique fair, antique shop, antique store, antiques market, etc.
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1840 F. W. Taylor Flag Ship II. v. 225 There are many expensive curiosities, which seldom reach the United States, found in the antique shops of the city.
1893 Critic 5 Aug. 90/2 I wonder if it is really the sword of Gen. Warren that hangs in an antique store on Beacon Street.
1897 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. 17/2 Fascinating-looking brass pails..in an ‘antiques shop’ in New York.
1937 Scotsman 12 Oct. 8/7 (headline) Duke and Duchess of Kent at antiques fair... Among their purchases was a silver coffee pot owned by King George III.
1991 J. Smiley Thousand Acres xvii. 122 Once Rose found an old hall rack, oak and, after we cleaned it, brass. She sold it for forty dollars to an antique store in Cabot.
1999 T. Parsons Man & Boy (2000) xi. 85 We lived on the wrong side of Highbury Corner,..the side where there were junk stores rather than antique shops.
2005 FQ (Canada) Spring 40 If you were entertaining the notion that shopping for antiques is glamorous and chichi, think again. The antiques market in Newark, about a two-hour drive from London, is like no other.
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