museum piece
Example Sentences
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It would require more briskness and directorial ingenuity to make Barry’s Jazz Age hit more than a pleasant-enough museum piece.
From Washington Post
This isn’t Mozart as a museum piece, porcelain to be handled with delicacy.
From New York Times
A local joke has it that the sea is now like a museum piece: Look, but don’t touch.
From Los Angeles Times
Her treatment of Mexican food as a museum piece was paternalistic at best and racist at worst.
From Los Angeles Times
Since its unveiling to the public at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in October 1915, the T. rex has become the world’s most iconic dinosaur and sought-after museum piece, the one creature whose full Latin name is common knowledge.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.