Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting.
A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
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Examples for "curiosity "
Examples for "curiosity "
1 Then with the hope came the story, curiosity , national interest and comparison.
2 Sooner or later practical curiosity and economic need produced the material sciences.
3 Brother Jacques; he will satisfy my curiosity in the matter of absolution.
4 But either way, that curiosity is there, and it's certainly not repression.
5 They came from exactly the same source: an insatiable curiosity about people.
1 The peculiarity of these debates was the prevailing discussion of general principles.
2 This personal peculiarity varies with the age and conditions of the individual.
3 But being young she didn't pay too much attention to this peculiarity .
4 The stomach of the camel is the third peculiarity which distinguishes it.
5 His peculiarity of temperament was in accord surely with nothing in Charmian.
1 The case reported in view of rarity and at 2 years followup.
2 It was once a rarity for prime ministers to talk about education.
3 But fashions change, and rarity and quality will always be in demand.
4 Given its rarity , optimal surgical, and oncologic management is not well described.
5 But I was ordered by Time City, as a rarity of history.
1 But in terms of story and overall impact, this oddity definitely reeks.
2 But the oddity in the present case was that he said nothing.
3 Kesseley felt like the human oddity at the fair-comicalby simply existing.
4 Indeed, he at once began to carry on Bilbo's reputation for oddity .
5 But otherwise, it's just an oddity that I'm sure you'll forget about.
1 Have a picnic and support the local vendors at their curio stalls.
2 Pine curio cabinets housed Bonnie's collection of fragile and expensive Kewpie dolls.
3 Then he noticed the chess set next to his mother's curio cabinet.
4 Doug Aitken's lovely curio opens with some essential number-crunching: 24 days.
5 There were Doctor Bernardo; Sato, the curio dealer; Otaka, the Ainu, and ourselves.
1 He jotted down the errors the catalogue had, marked the books he wanted, and delighted himself in general with an oddment of lists.
2 I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments .
3 Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
4 I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village.
5 Oddments : The post office at 52 Rue du Louvre never shuts.
6 Polton, give me a pearl shirt-button out of your oddments box.
7 Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed.
8 The sight of Peter's plain little oddments made me feel solemn.
9 Never mind if you have left some oddments behind; Elsie can send them on.
10 In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day-instruments ,clothing ,andpersonal effects.
11 The few oddments he used on the voyage, we burned.
12 Among the other oddments is a dish of nice-looking plums.
13 Shops sold drinking cups, gilded statuettes and oddments of armor.
14 Oddments of ink told of old entertainments, while concrete desiccated.
15 Patrolman Willis worked painstakingly with amplifiers on what oddments could be picked up in space.
16 Bast slowly passed his hand over the collection of oddments , eventually stopping above the knife.
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