单词 | stamp collection |
释义 | > as lemmasstamp collection stamp collection n. a philatelist's collection of postage stamps; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting stamps > [noun] > collection stamp collection1884 1865 Stamp-collector's Mag. 3 2/1 When we first saw a postage-stamp collection, more than ten years past, it contained about a hundred and fifty specimens.] 1884 Stamp Collectors' Jrnl. 15 Jan. 19/1 The value of a stamp collection does not depend entirely upon the amount of money expended for the album and the stamps. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 164 This corpus of fact..is only a vast stamp-collection, no more than a lumber-room, unless each generation in its turn will make it live. 1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline iv. 62 He was basically a retiring man, content to make a modest living, reside in a little apartment in Passy and tend to his small stamp collection. < as lemmas |
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