automobilian.
/ˌɔːtəmə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪə/, /ˌɔːtəməʊˈbiːlɪə/, U.S. /ˌɔdəmoʊˈbɪljə/, /ˌɔdəmoʊˈbɪliə/, /ˌɔdoʊmoʊˈbɪljə/, /ˌɔdoʊmoʊˈbɪliə/, /ˌɑdəmoʊˈbɪljə/, /ˌɑdəmoʊˈbɪliə/, /ˌɑdoʊmoʊˈbɪljə/, /ˌɑdoʊmoʊˈbɪliə/ Things relating to motor vehicles; spec. collectable objects associated with motor vehicles or the history of motoring.
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1902 Life 19 June 523/1 (heading) Automobilia... Mr. Hughem Downe is having his machine fixed over to run eighty miles an hour.
1906 Academy 22 Dec. 623/2 ‘The Auto Guest Book of Mobile Maxims’..this banquet of automobilia wit.
1952 Times 8 Apr. 3/4 A feature of Palace House..will be a collection of veteran motor-cars and ‘automobilia’ of the Edwardian period.
1997 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 16 Sept. b4 Such ‘automobilia’ as original car advertisements, brochures or automotive art and car models.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 9 Apr. i. 12/5 ‘My passion is collecting cars, and it always has been,’ Jacobs said during an interview at his Willowbrook office, a virtual nirvana for aficionados of ‘automobilia’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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