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antique

[an-teek] / ænˈtik /




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Over the years, Barton scoured antique shops, bookshops and auctions to add to his collection, which has grown to about 100,000 artifacts owned by Barton and his son Tim.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

My lamp is a French antique with a heavy iron chain link as its base.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

It also featured what we’d now call a “vintage” kitchen, featuring antique appliances.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

Ex-Canadian MP Inky Mark has been arrested after police found a trove of guns, ammunition and an antique cannon along with thousands of dollars in cash in his home.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

An antique keypad like the one Mom had on her greenhouse is next to the doorlatch.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

They share a love of antiques, certain novels and can quote “Little Women” at each other.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

But by the 1960s, it was much diminished, and a later owner, Benjamin Swig, had sold close to 1,000 antiques and artworks to help pay bills.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Egglestone, who has been in the antiques business for more than 25 years, said the comedian was a pleasure to be around, and the show had boosted visitor numbers.

From BBC May 6, 2026

In a trip in November 2013 to Vincenzo Caffarella, a decorative arts and antiques shop in London, £170,000 was allegedly spent on a "vast amount of property" including Venetian lamps and vases.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

They passed a store for watches, a bank, a gift shop full of antiques, a nursery school.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Of course, the only caveat is watching the slick show in the antiqued DVD format.

From Washington Times Dec. 1, 2021

Do you think it’s OK to have a low-key party to celebrate our child, or is this an antiqued ordeal that needs to go?

From Slate Jan. 31, 2021

Designed by Stephen Rieman and Mark Krasne, the condo features antiqued mirrors, hand-stenciled doors and a wet bar.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2019

The work doesn’t stint on passionate drama, but it also has an antiqued, bronzed, sometimes delicately flute-fluttering and strings-pricking sound, as if the score had been unearthed from long ago.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2019

With glasses, and an unbelted Mother Hubbard gown made out of antiqued gold cloth, she might have passed for a habitué of the pseudo-artistic colony that made its headquarters not far away from her domicile.

From Apron-Strings by Eleanor Gates

Two years later, their love of thrifting, antiquing, bargaining and restoring has turned their Westwood rental into a showcase of “secondhand treasures,” says Van Hulsen, 28, who works as a commercial contract specialist.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

Two lamps weren’t just two lamps, but the best outing she spent antiquing with my grandmother before she passed away from Alzheimer’s disease.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2024

A one-of-a-kind pillow on the bed was crafted from an antique tapestry discovered during an antiquing adventures.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2023

“My houses have always been my creative, shopping and antiquing outlets — they just combine everything I like to do,” she explains.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2021

Occasionally she disappears for the day, to go antiquing in the surrounding towns.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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