antiquary

Examples

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• Emil Brugsch was a top antiquary's official at the time.

  Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007)

• To give some background to this proposed museum and the interest in African art it manifests, the author noted that an antiquary shop in the Rue.

  Academic text (1990)

• "The antiquary," wrote Reid in his Submerged Forests ("It's in the university library," says Gaffney).

  Academic text (2007)

• The first are the "traditional" ballads collected by antiquaries such as Thomas Percy, Joseph Ritson, Charlotte Brooke, and Sir Walter Scott, the appeal of which was that they were ancient, a kind of poetry that tied the present to the past in ways that writers then, as now, found fascinating.

  Academic text (2016)

• The antiquary spent years researching ancient manuscripts to add to his collection.

• As an antiquary, she specializes in rare artifacts from the Roman era.

• He visited the antiquary to find an original piece of pottery from the medieval period.

Synonyms

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antiquarian

vsantiquary

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A person who studies, collects, or sells old objects like books and furniture

focuses more on ancient artifacts and manuscripts

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antiquer

vsantiquary

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A person who collects or sells old valuable things like furniture

is more scholarly, involving study of ancient artifacts and manuscripts

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archaist

vsantiquary

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A person who studies or collects objects from ancient times

is concerned with ancient artifacts and manuscripts but may not be an expert

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology