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Definition of museum piece
1 : something preserved in or suitable for a museum
2 : one that is out-of-date : a thing of the past
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Examples of museum piece in a Sentence
That old computer will soon be a museum piece.
that old wooden ironing board she uses is a museum piece
Recent Examples on the Web That thing on top of the hill in Montgomery is a museum piece.
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Kyle Whitmire, al, "If Alabama has to go back to work, so should the Legislature," 25 Mar. 2020 But those aren’t Tomlinson’s favorite museum pieces.
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Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, "Honolulu World War II museum fights to remain open for more Pearl Harbor anniversaries," 7 Dec. 2019 The 2020 Shelby GT500, of course, is more than a museum piece.
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Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, "2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, VIN 001, Rolls Off Line in Candy Apple Green," 8 Jan. 2020 Discovered by an amazed farmer, the poor beast ended its short life in Sweden as a stuffed museum piece — probably the one and only alligator ever found in the wild in Sweden.
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Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, "St. Lucia Festival returns to honor Central Florida’s Swedish heritage," 1 Dec. 2019 Yet as the event at City Hall demonstrated, Earth, Wind & Fire shouldn’t be thought of as a museum piece.
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Los Angeles Times, "In praise of Earth, Wind & Fire, purveyor of black excellence for a half-century," 12 Sep. 2019 Trout is both the game’s greatest player and also something of a museum piece come to life, his accomplishments captured in high definition but also, with every swing of his bat, seemingly destined for a grander place in baseball’s history books.
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Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "Angels star Mike Trout beats out Alex Bregman to win his third AL MVP award," 14 Nov. 2019 Surrounding the museum piece of a CPU is a 1.78-inch, 448×368 OLED display, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and a 570mAh battery.
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Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, "Xiaomi’s Apple Watch clone removes everything good about the Apple Watch," 6 Nov. 2019 The Goldfinch is like a museum piece, a stately and handsome-looking thing that’s utterly lacking in momentum.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, "The Goldfinch Is Star-Studded, Pretty, and Lifeless," 12 Sep. 2019
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The first known use of museum piece was in 1898
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