museum piece



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.
See also: piece

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Alger['ældʒə]
Mathilda[mə'tildə]
GuusKHUYSDutch
Estrellaes-TRE-yahSpanish
Cadfan-Welsh
Finch[fintʃ]