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"ref": "2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised",
"text": "Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.",
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"ref": "2012 March 19, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler",
"text": "Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?",
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"ref": "2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.",
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"roman": "gǔwán",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "古玩"
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"word": "kummallinen esine"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "骨董品"
},
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"roman": "goldongpum",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "골동품"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "onge"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/"
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},
{
"ref": "2012 March 19, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler",
"text": "Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?",
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{
"ref": "2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.",
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{
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔwán",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "古玩"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔdǒng",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "古董"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kuriozita"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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"word": "curiosum"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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"word": "curiositeit"
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "kummallinen esine"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "erikoisuus"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "骨董品"
},
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"alt": "骨董品",
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goldongpum",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "골동품"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"word": "onge"
},
{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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"word": "ciudățenie"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"word": "curiozitate"
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"word": "дико́вина"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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"word": "курьёз"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
"tags": [
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"word": "curiosidad"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strange and interesting object",
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"word": "objeto curioso"
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"word": "curio"
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