museum piece

An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another era-she's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Babcock	['bæbkɔk]
Santuzza	-	Italian
Cyneburg	-	Anglo-Saxon
Uttara	-	Hinduism, Indian, Marathi
Herb	HURB	English
Hadia	-	Arabic