Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collector or receiver of stamp-duties.
- noun One who collects postage- or revenue-stamps as articles of interest or curiosity; a philatelist.
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Examples
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We first meet Jackie, who timidly walks into a stamp-collector store with a set of collected stamps which have been in her family for years.
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When I can't think of anything in particular I want to listen to on the subway for my morning commute, I ask Miss Pod to play a random selection of songs that I haven't yet heard, an easy task since my accumulation of music is more vociferous than my listening to it (the juvenile stamp-collector retains his habits).
Archive 2006-08-01 Roger Sutton 2006
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From 23.01.2008 begins School stamp-collector exhibition.
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When I can't think of anything in particular I want to listen to on the subway for my morning commute, I ask Miss Pod to play a random selection of songs that I haven't yet heard, an easy task since my accumulation of music is more vociferous than my listening to it (the juvenile stamp-collector retains his habits).
Walking after Midnight Roger Sutton 2006
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This feat of memory is, moreover, no hardship at all, for the enthusiasm of the normal stamp-collector is so potent that its proprietor has only to stand by and let it do all the work.
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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If a man is a religious lunatic, or a vegetarian, he is sure to be touched in some other department as well; he will be an anti-vivisectionist, a nutfooder, costume-maniac, stamp-collector, or a spiritualist into the bargain.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Jacobite, a hater of false hair and of all collective action to stamp out hydrophobia, a stamp-collector, an engager of lady-helps instead of servants, an amateur reciter and skirt dancer, an owner of a lock of
The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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At each threat of exposure, and in particular whenever I was directly challenged for an opinion, I made haste to fill the butler's glass, and by the time we had got to the exchanges, he was in a condition in which no stamp-collector need be seriously feared.
The Wrecker 1898
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Dr. France was a stamp-collector, a player -- indifferent -- on the cornet, a rabid Tory, and a person who could never be trusted to deal faithfully and on C.O.S. principles with tramps and "undesirables."
Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885
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Genealogy is fun, in a geeky stamp-collector kind of way, but for the overenthusiastic it can also be very misleading.
Sketchy Thoughts 2010
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