curio
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Yet more than a plot-driven work, this curio plays like a sensorial and surreal trip where a magical staircase to heaven blends with the already hypnotic landscape.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
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
The new directive prohibits them from 15 sectors including mobile money transfers, tour guiding, small-scale mining, on-farm crop buying, beauty salons, curio shops and establishing radio and TV operations.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing curio
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