curiosa

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curiosa
Noun
  • Featuring more than 100 works alongside ephemera documenting her activism and teaching work, the exhibition provides a deeper understanding of her pioneering and influential work at the intersection of race, gender, class and ecology.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • This new volume promises to give us more of the same, complete with photographs, letters, journal entries, and other ephemera, pasted right in.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • But there’s much more to the apartment than a mere accumulation of objets de vertu.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
Noun
  • These are very tastefully laid off, with walks and carriage drives, and are covered with a profusion of rare exotics, beautiful flowers, and semi-tropical plants of every variety known to this climate.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 4 July 2025
  • The question is, if our native plants evolved under the local conditions, how on earth do these exotics outcompete them?
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Plates and placemats, yellowed bed linens and napkins, glassware, curios, and sewing kits.
    Libby Buck July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • Today, next to the cast of Callie’s foot is an urn with her ashes and a glass curio cabinet filled with mementos including baby shoes.
    Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Stalter is refreshingly comfortable in her own skin—a rarity in Hollywood (and everywhere else, really).
    Lindy Segal, Glamour, 7 July 2025
  • But that isn’t the case for the Cardinals, who are a rarity in this regard.
    Katie Woo, New York Times, 6 July 2025
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“Curiosa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curiosa. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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