| 单词 | curio |
| 释义 | curio (once / 3996 pages) n A curio is a strange or interesting collectible object. Your vintage Pez dispenser collection, for example, is a group of curios. Something worth collecting, whether it's a rare coin or a strange 19th century photograph or a bizarre clown painting, is a curio. You might even have a special, tall cabinet with glass doors for protecting and displaying your curios — you can call this a curio cabinet. The word curio, first used in the mid-19th century, originally meant specifically a collectible item from "the Far East," and was a shortened form of curiosity. WORD FAMILYcurio: curios USAGE EXAMPLESSurely this would be the curio from my childhood that my son and I would bond over at last. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) Elle was predicted to be nothing but a curio, tagged on to the end of a festival filled with more obvious surface-level substance and pomp. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) Images from the building’s website depict a wooden studio filled with antiques, sculptures and curios. New York Times(Dec 04, 2016) n something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting Syn|Hypo|Hyper curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot miscellaneous curios collectable, collectiblethings considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) collector's item, piece de resistance, showpiecethe outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke(Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket rariora(plural) rare collector's items object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow |
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