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单词 antiquing
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antiquingn.

Brit. /anˈtiːkɪŋ/, U.S. /ænˈtikɪŋ/
Forms: 1700s 1900s– antiquing, 1900s– antiqueing.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: antique adj., -ing suffix1; antique n., -ing suffix1; antique v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: In sense 1 < antique adj. + -ing suffix1; compare later antique v. 2. In sense 2 < antique n. + -ing suffix1; compare later antique v. 3. In sense 3 < antique v. + -ing suffix1; compare earlier antiquating n. 2, antiquation n. 3. Compare earlier antiquer n.
1. Bookbinding. The ornamentation of the cut edges of a book using hot irons and sometimes gilding. Cf. antique adj. 5. Obsolete.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [noun]
antiquing1728
royal binding1808
Russia binding1817
gothique1818
half-binding1821
Roxburghe1839
paper cover1843
trade binding1874
tree-calf1879
Grolier1880
yapp1883
cloth-work1885
publisher's binding1885
tree-marble1885
treed calf1892
presentation binding1893
quarter leather1894
quarter calf1896
three-quarter binding1897
library binding1903
circuit-binding1909
publisher's cloth1911
quarter binding1912
loose back1923
open back1923
spring-back1923
spiral binding1949
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Bookbinding On the Gold thus apply'd, they..made Ornaments, with hot Irons.., the Practice of which..[was] call'd by a new-invented Name, Antiquing.
1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 63 Du Seuil..who about the beginning of the 18th century carried to great perfection the art of gold ornamenting, or as they then called it, antiquing of books, to which custom Mr. Pope alludes.
2. The action or practice of searching or shopping for antiques, esp. as a pastime; antique collecting.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun]
shelling1861
bugging1862
oology1869
bibliophily1877
antiquing1916
cartophily1936
deltiology1947
phillumeny1951
tegestology1960
notaphily1970
scripophily1978
1916 A. Van L. Carrick in House Beautiful Oct. 267/2 And there is the funniest old lady that we have met on our ‘antiqueing’ trips.
1974 Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, Pa.) 16 June b2 For most of us who confine our collecting to those items made in America, this particular field of antiqueing is quite good and one may still find..interesting specimens.
2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Oct. d2 You call it antiquing, I call it paying good money for someone else's junk.
3. The fabrication of an appearance of age; the action of antique v. 1.
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1923 Daily Mail 1 Mar. 8/5 Having completed the article [of furniture], he proceeds to do the ‘antiquing’.
1976 N. H. H. Graburn Ethnic & Tourist Arts 19/2 This may lead to the sale of old masks, or to the wholesale faking and antiquing of objects.
2008 L. Ferrara Easy Fresco iii. 32/2 The unevenness of the antiquing adds to the aged appearance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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