historical curiosity

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandcuriosity

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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curiosity
noun
uk
/ˌkjʊə.riˈɒs.ə.ti/us
/ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/
an eager wish to know or learn ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandcuriosityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhistorical curiosity

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These medications had far more pervasive effects of might be implied by the morbidhistoricalcuriositythat they inspire today.
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More than a merehistoricalcuriosity, this relationship is crucial and indispensable, given the challenges and opportunities facing us.
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Perhaps that is a matter ofhistoricalcuriosity.
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If that is true, how can we be expected to take note of the document, except possibly as ahistoricalcuriosity?
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In recent years the board has become something of ahistoricalcuriosity.
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In recent years the board has become something of anhistoricalcuriosity.
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On the other hand such a study could come into its own once our prevailing gender bitterness has assumed its place as anhistoricalcuriosity.
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It has been convened on irregular intervals over several decades in order to decide questions ofhistoricalcuriosity.
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The existing code is seen as anhistoricalcuriosity.
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It is however a merehistoricalcuriosityyielding only a peppercorn income due to over four centuries of inflation and poor investment decisions.
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For all its technical limitations, the crwth has great charm, and is much more than ahistoricalcuriosity.
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Lewis's strict implication is now ahistoricalcuriosity, but the formal modal logic in which he grounded that notion is the ancestor of all modern work on the subject.
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It has little if any tourist activity or organized historical curiosities.
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The city contains many historical curiosities, including collegiate churches, a cloister, the ruins of a castle, and a hermitage.
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In his opinion, poetry is a storage of historical curiosities, in which we keep rarely used words, and poets are workers who use these words as the raw material.
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