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antiquary

[an-ti-kwer-ee] / ˈæn tɪˌkwɛr i /
NOUN
antique dealer
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James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2021

Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.

From Washington Post Dec. 27, 2017

In the 1890s, antiquary John Buchanan saw "an entire mass of broken stones mingled with fragments of pottery" exposed when the railway line was cut through Castlecary fort.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2013

Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.

From The Guardian Oct. 5, 2012

The antiquary may draw his own conclusion from the non-existence of a dun on the hill of Allen at this day.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

With knowledge under siege, antiquaries of that time were the last defense against the destruction of books.

From Slate Dec. 8, 2020

Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.

From Washington Post Mar. 20, 2018

The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2013

But Newcastle's antiquaries retain a youthful curiosity and zest.

From The Guardian Jan. 22, 2013

Those who chose "disorderly to leave the Kingdom" did so, and thus what they gained in that kind of liberty is a loss to their descendants who happen to be antiquaries and genealogists.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.




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