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Word of the Day for Thursday, December 4, 2008curio \KYOOR-ee-oh\, noun: a valued, novel object; an object valued as a curiosity, often a collectible It is tempting to think of [it] not as a novel but as a glittering artifact, something an acquisitive traveler might discover in a musty Venetian curio shop. Her latest addition, a fake yellow canary that she affixed to the front door, simply canÕt be ignored. With any luck, the cat will soon mistake the curio for a real bird and that will be the end of it. Tensions in his parents' home in New York and summer visits to his Boston grandfather left impressions that became, over time, fragmentary memories tinged with sadness-as when he recalls, in Redburn, the melancholy longing provoked by the miniature glass ship displayed in his grandfather's curio case. by 1851, literally, "piece of bric-a-brac or art object from the far East," a shortened form of curiosity | |||||||||
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