collector
Example Sentences
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In 1970s Britain people were looking for a "signal of hope", says vintage decor collector Lucy Scott, in a time of austerity, trade union action and miners' strikes.
From BBC
But in the early 2010s, seemingly out of nowhere, record collectors in the West caught on to the genre.
From BBC
After a two-year slump, sales surged across nearly every category at the world’s chief auction houses as younger collectors paid more for luxury goods, while seasoned buyers competed for masterpieces from prestigious estates.
The most brilliant collector of Cubism of his generation, he emerges as wickedly funny and in most other ways loathsome.
Ms. Kondo makes the point that handmade ceramics bear the spirit “of the place and time in which they were made”—a sentiment that underscores any collector’s impulses for the accumulation of objects.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
