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curio
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Definition:A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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auctioneer: Now, your next item, ladies and gentlemen, is something of a family curio: six bottles of the Dowager Lady Ursula's homemade gooseberry wine.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances, season 5: The Country Estate Sale (1995)
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My father would sit in the old iron lawn chair with his leg stretched out in front of him and propped up slightly on an ostentatious boot scraper that Grandma Lynn had found in a curio shop in Maryland.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.159 (2002)
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the rough simplicity of a child who will play with some curio from the cabinet no more carefully than if it were a penny toy.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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