curio

Example Sentences

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It was at once a stark avant-garde curio and a communal conversation-starter about representation and reality.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

This curio of a film could have gone deeper into what it means to be a gangster, but its core themes resonate all the same.

From Los Angeles Times

Maybe there’s something in the frigid water, as both he and the town’s other beloved cult curio, Guy Maddin, make eccentric odes to their humble homeland.

From Los Angeles Times