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Recent Examples of antiquarian
Since then, the sartorial antiquarian has turned it into a thrice-annual vintage fair on Manhattan’s West 18th Street in the Altman Building—the former carriage house that received goods for legendary New York department store B. Altman & Company.
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the house’s eaves, where Sheraton and her husband kept cozy twin offices, the books awaited Slotnick, who specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian titles, and who’d been given first dibs.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
One essay told of how Wilfrid Voynich remade himself from a Polish revolutionary into a charming New York antiquarian.
—Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
In 1852, however, the antiquarian Richard Hitchcock visited the site and concluded that the tomb had been dismantled, perhaps so that its stones could be reused elsewhere.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the house’s eaves, where Sheraton and her husband kept cozy twin offices, the books awaited Slotnick, who specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian titles, and who’d been given first dibs.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
One essay told of how Wilfrid Voynich remade himself from a Polish revolutionary into a charming New York antiquarian.
—Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
In 1852, however, the antiquarian Richard Hitchcock visited the site and concluded that the tomb had been dismantled, perhaps so that its stones could be reused elsewhere.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antiquarian
bookseller
Noun
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Our booksellers are passionate about genre fiction; in particular, horror, sci-fi, fantasy and romance novels.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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Descended from a long line of clergymen, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at fifteen, which seems to have decided his professional fate.—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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