curio
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Locals shuffled through makeshift aisles bounded by curio cabinets, wardrobes and home bars styled with faux cocktails for an imaginary party.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
In his review, the BBC's Nicholas Barber called it a "pretentious, portentous curio", akin to someone recalling a "crazy dream".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
It’s wonderful that she’s working and seems to be having fun, but the subgenre is such a strange curio that one has to take stock at a certain point.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
As an album, “New Blue Sun” tends toward the curio — both endurance and Rorschach test.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
There were ottomans and framed photographs and curio cabinets full of souvenirs, their very frivolousness reassuring.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
The album’s 11 songs were childlike curios, with Mr. Richman announcing several of the titles at the start, accompanied by a pithy, monotone explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The retro versions may read like curios now, but tucked inside is a very modern impulse: making something generous out of what you have.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
"They are just very charismatic, very playful, very social, very curios and very intelligent and that's why people love them," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
It’s nothing compared with other collectors, some of whom even build out special rooms in their homes to devote to their cardboard curios, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Most of those sales were probably for the usual bric-a-brac and curios the scenarioists bought for themselves, but the tally was easily going to be the best of the summer.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing curio
"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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