antique
古董,古物,古玩,古代
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Definitions
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- : of or belonging to the past; not modern.
- : dating from a period long ago: antique furniture.
- : noting or pertaining to automobiles approximately 25 years old or more.
- : in the tradition, fashion, or style of an earlier period; old-fashioned; antiquated.
- : of or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- : neither calendered nor coated and having a rough surface.
- : ancient.
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- : any work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, created or produced in a former period, or, according to U.S. customs laws, 100 years before date of purchase.
- : the antique style, usually Greek or Roman, especially in art.
- : Printing. a style of type.
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Examples
Cummings, a retired antique store owner, moved from Newton and found ideological kinship just across the county line, in rural and ever-redder Jasper.
In this line of thinking, it’s okay to chuckle when Borat destroys an antique shop’s goods in the first film because the owner has some Confederate paraphernalia.
Chuck and Lucius brought a Victorian hamper filled with fine china plates, Austrian crystal, silver, and antique damask napkins.
Although the cabin is off the grid, you can plug in at the main house, and there’s warm water for showers and the antique bathtub on the porch.
The metal is finished in an antique bronze color, and comes fully assembled.
The library in Williamsburg itself is illuminated with antique filament bulbs and everything inside is of the past or a nod to it.
Fully when I got that call I was at an antique mall with my mom.
She was in a Chicago antique mall with her mom when she found out she got the audition.
For $4, he bought an antique picture frame and everything it contained.
We need to talk about economic fairness, even justice—an antique-sounding but still important word—not economic diversity.
It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.