| 单词 | antiquity-collecting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasantiquity-collecting b. With participles and agent nouns, forming compounds in which antiquity expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in antiquity-collecting, antiquity dealer, antiquity hunter, antiquity-hunting, etc. ΚΠ 1738 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts Europe: Tours since 1723 I. 20 The Roman Virtuosi themselves have their Cercatori or Antiquity-Hunters. 1841 G. R. Gliddon Mem. Cotton of Egypt 62 European antiquity-collectors or their agents throughout Egypt. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 119 The bishop of Ossory, who was antiquity-hunting in Sutherland. 1988 P. J. O'Rourke Holidays in Hell 26 Antiquity hunters have been at work in Tyre. All the Roman tombs are broken open. 1994 A. V. Ettin Speaking Silences viii. 150 All beloved of the antiquity-collecting Renaissance patrons and scholars. 1997 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 Mar. 3 (caption) This..Egyptian funeral figure..was discovered in a box at Sydney's Nicholson Museum by a leading antiquity dealer. < as lemmas |
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