Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who treats or finishes new furniture so as to make it appear old or antique.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an
antique . (Either for decoration or to perpetrate a fraud.) - noun slang A person who
browses for antiques.
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Examples
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I'm not much of an antiquer but I sure do like Junk. *smile* I found an old Kodak contact printing frame for 5x7's!
Archive 2006-12-01 Michelle Amarante Photography 2006
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I'm not much of an antiquer but I sure do like Junk. *smile* I found an old Kodak contact printing frame for 5x7's!
Free Time..... Michelle Amarante Photography 2006
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Item, that if friend Flaccus be not a calumniator, even the rigid virtue of the antiquer Cato delighted in so stimulant a vanity as wine hot.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Item, that if friend Flaccus be not a calumniator, even the rigid virtue of the antiquer Cato delighted in so stimulant a vanity as wine hot.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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