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special collection

American

noun

Library Science.

a collection of materials segregated from a general library collection according to form, subject, age, condition, rarity, source, or value.

Example Sentences

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Tasteful and deceptively simple designs graced the Lemaire runway in a sublime collection.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022

Stafford’s slim, sublime collection awakens us over and over to the delicacy, immensity and wonder of our environs.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2017

The Bone Palace A sublime collection that never seems to end.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2013

The Psalms, even now, reduced to prose, after three thousand years, present the best and most sublime collection of lyrical poems, unequaled for their aspiration, their living imagery, their grand ideas, and majesty of style.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

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