Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A curious or unusual object of art or piece of bric-a-brac.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, an object of virtu or article of bric-à-brac, such as a bronze, a piece of porcelain or lacquer-ware, etc., brought from China or the far East; now, any bronze, or piece of old china or of bric-à-brac in general, especially such as is rare or curious: as, a collection of curios.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any curiosity{3} or article of virtu; any object esteemed for its unusual nature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strange andinteresting object which invokescuriosity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".
Books Maxine 2009
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There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".
June 2009 Maxine 2009
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There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".
Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archive Maxine 2009
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There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".
Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archive Maxine 2009
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Andy Baio of Waxy. org shares a curio from the past — Computability, in which Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows explain the concept of home computing to the layman of 1984.
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Andy Baio of Waxy. org shares a curio from the past — Computability, in which Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows explain the concept of home computing to the layman of 1984.
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I mean if you look at the issues that face the next papacy and you look at them from the perspective of this curio, which is very Euro-centric, most of the cardinals are European.
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'The curio is my own property, and I will do just as I please with it.'
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Guy Boothby 1886
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The centre will also have a "lapa" for the staging of traditional dances, a small lodge to house tourists overnight and tourist-orientated businesses such as curio shops and safari companies to serve surrounding private game reserves.
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