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museum piece
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noun
something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
something very old-fashioned or decrepit: That car he drives is a museum piece.
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Origin of museum piece
First recorded in 1900ā05
Words nearby museum piece
musette, musette bag, museum, museum beetle, museumgoer, museum piece, Museveni, Musgrave, mush, mush area, Musharraf
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How to use museum piece in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for museum piece
museum piece
noun
an object of sufficient age or interest to be kept in a museum
informal a person or thing regarded as antiquated or decrepit
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Other Idioms and Phrases with museum piece
museum piece
An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another eraāshe's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915.
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