antiquarian

• A mere antiquarian is a rugged being Upon the whole, you see that what I might say in sport or petulance to him, is very consistent with full conviction of his merit I am, dear Sir Your most, ;c SAM. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3
• He was a sort of artist or antiquarian, and couldn't be got away from the tithe-barn. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
• The stores here tend toward the antiquarian, although at the intersection with rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau lies one of the stores of the extraordinary shoe designer of —  Vertigo: Collecting & Reading W.G. Sebald
• Mr. Fleming was an enthusiastic antiquarian, and revelled in the history of the neighbourhood. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• Kleptomania is met with in the book-worm or the antiquarian, as well as in the feminine lover of dress or those in poverty and distress. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

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