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Definition of Antiques
1. antique [v] - See also: antique
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiques
Literary usage of Antiques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"The collection of antiques at Dresden, .contains, ... The inadequate attempts of
Le Plat and Casanova to make the antiques of Dresden known by engravings, ..."
2. Gems of Chinese Literature by Herbert Allen Giles (1884)
"antiques. FOR some years I had possessed an old inkstand, left at my house by a
friend. It came into ordinary use as such, I being unaware that it was an ..."
3. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving (1906)
"LONDON antiques. 1 do walk Methinks like Guide Vaux, with my dark lanthorn,
Stealing to set the town o' fire ; i' th' country I should be taken for William ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... also are a marble group of A Boy leading a Bull to Sacrifice,' and busts of
Euripides and Paris copied in marble from antiques in the Vatican at Rome. ..."
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