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Meanings of great collector in English

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Usage of great collector in English
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He was also a great collector of furniture, particularly old oak.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
2
He was a great collector of rare books, but he is dead now.
A Bicycle of Cathay
3
I am a great collector of curios, and especially of quaint and curious rings.
Frank Merriwell's Chums
4
A great writer of books was Mr. H., and a great collector of them.
Alone
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A great private benefactor, Bernard Arnault, wanted to pay homage to a great collector, he said.
The Guardian
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He is the great collector of Eighteenth Century caricatures, the Rowlandson and Gilray school of things.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
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The reader may imagine some such conversation between the great collector and one of his dazzled visitors:-
The Bibliotaph, and Other People
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And she says Mr. Clocklan is a great collector of art but they don't mean a thing to me.
The ginger man
9
He's a great collector.
The Mating of Lydia
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He was a Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I and a great collector of recipes, particularly of "Meath".
The Guardian
11
In his way the man was an artist, a great collector of pictures and bronzes, a real lover and seeker after perfection.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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David Murray was always a great collector of paintings, and especially of prints, which last he left to the Adelaide Art Gallery.
An Autobiography
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It could be nothing, Gaius is a great collector of art as well as flesh, but if he's my competitor I must know.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
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And yet you tell me that Morrison was the only great collector in the world to whom that notoriously false bauble could be sold.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
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He was a great buyer of pictures, which, perhaps, he did not understand, and a great collector of books which certainly he never read.
Can You Forgive Her?
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He had for years been a great collector of pictures, of which he left a large number (1200) to the town of Ajaccio.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15
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