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curio

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Any curiosity or article of virtu.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. Morley Safer

And to emphasize the bad name Caesar had won alike for unnatural and natural vice, I may here record that the Elder Curio referred to him in a speech as: "Every woman's man and every man's woman." Suetonius

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavius and Curio (or, less frequently, year 678 Ab urbe condita ). Source: Internet

In a way I think this dialogue-driven enterprise might have played better on stage and lost some of the artifice, but on the other hand I think Pearce is going for some kind of cult item here, a cinematic curio that might gain more devotees as it ages. Source: Internet

Garcia kills various bad guys as he searches for clues in the opium dens, curio shops, and Cantonese restaurants of Mexico City's Chinatown -- clues that appear to point not to Mongolia, but to Cuba. Source: Internet

She said it was one of the first products she and her mother, Hesphina Rukato, produced when they formed their company in 2014 - and it was sold, with little fanfare, at a curio shop at Zimbabwe's Harare International Airport. Source: Internet

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