| 单词 | collector's piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmascollector's piece a. One who collects or gathers together; spec. one who gathers separate literary compositions, etc., into one book, a compiler (now rare or obsolete), one who collects scientific specimens, works of art, curiosities, etc. collector's or collectors' item, collector's piece, an item of interest to collectors because of its excellence, rarity, etc.; also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who compilerc1330 gatherera1387 compilatorc1400 aggregator1528 collector1582 scissor man1826 scissorer1846 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] > collector collector1774 collectress1825 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > collecting curiosities, etc. > one who collector1774 bower-bird1926 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > rareness > something very rare rare1566 rariety1566 black swan?1570 rarity1592 hen's milk1601 white Negro1631 rara avis1651 (one) in a million1685 collector's or collectors' item1910 lightning in a bottle1941 rare bird1962 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun] > article collector's or collectors' item1910 collectable1955 1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones Pref. To plaie the part of a faithfull collector by following my copies trulie. a1679 J. Alting in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. lxxxix. 52 Added by the Collector of the Psalms as a concluding doxology. 1762 R. Hurd Lett. Chivalry & Romance iv. 24 Thanks to the curiosity of certain painful collectors, this knowledge may be obtained at a cheaper rate. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 32 Every collector of butterflies can shew undescribed species. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 441 Erasmus is usually considered as the first modern collector [of proverbs]. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 408 The specimens [of walrus] in the museums of collectors. 1910 J. Yoxall ABC about Collecting 82 Shall one collect in order to have a complete set of examples, or only to have an incomplete lot of fine ‘collector's pieces’? 1928 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 625 Some swine would call your Blake a collector's piece. 1932 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 Jan. iv. 14/5 A charming fancy clothed in distinctive form, at a price, however, that puts the book in the class of collectors' items. 1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself iii. 67 It became a ‘collector's piece’ in the U.S. book-market. 1956 E. Grierson Second Man i. 9 Jaggers..was something of a collector's piece on the Circuit. 1967 J. Gardner Madrigal iii. 56 I'm not going to shoot up a thing like that. It's a bloody collector's item. < as lemmas |
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