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antiquedom

noun

Etymology

From antique + -dom.

  1. derived from antiquus — “former, earlier, ancient, old”
  2. borrowed from antique — “ancient, old”
  3. suffixed as antiquedom — “antique + dom”

Definitions

  1. The world of antiques or of things old

    The world of antiques or of things old; antiquity.

    • The exotic atmosphere of the whole queer underworld of antiquedom and of collector-cranks spicily pervades the hook. Yet this, after all, is but the sauce of the dish. The viand itself is the exasperating yet lovable humanness of humanity.
    • To such folk as qualify in the class of small collectors I recommend excursions into the obscure bypaths of antiquedom.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiquedom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA