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museum piece en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Referring to the preservation of historic artifacts in museums.

Meanings

  1. An item worthy of being kept by a museum.
    • These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days. 1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:
  2. (slang) A very old item, especially an obsolete piece of technology.
    • Jim's car is a real museum piece.
    • A Sinclair Spectrum computer is now just a museum piece.

Forms

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Translations (4)

cs muzeální kousek (old item) · fi museoesine (item kept in or suitable for a museum) · de Museumsstück (old item) · fi museoesine (old item)