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
Viktorie	-	Czech
Beulah	BYOO-lə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
Brittney	BRIT-nee	English (Modern)
Indira	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil
Laney	LAYN-ee	English
Tacito	tah-CHEE-to (Italian), tah-THEE-to (Spanish), tah-SEE-to (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese