museum piece
Use Museum piece in a sentencemuseum piece
noun
1.
something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
2.
something very old-fashioned or decrepit: That car he drives is a museum piece.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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| museum piece | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an object of sufficient age or interest to be kept in a museum |
| 2. | informal a person or thing regarded as antiquated or decrepit |
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Idioms & Phrases
museum piece
An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another era
she's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
It has become a museum piece largely doomed to collect dust on the bookshelf.
It turns out the dog pencil sharpener is actually a museum piece.
It will then become a museum piece, on display at the space centre.
The ethereal, mysterious kalimba is often misunderstood, misinterpreted and mistaken for being a museum piece or trinket.
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