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
YasemİN	yah-se-MEEN	Turkish
Miyu	mee-yoo	Japanese
Evgeniya	yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian)	Bulgarian, Russian
Jacobine	yah-ko-BEE-nə (Dutch)	Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Eleonora	e-le-o-NO-rah (German), E-le-o-no-rah (Finnish), e-le-aw-NAW-rah (Polish)	Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Bulgarian
Nekane	ne-KAH-ne	Basque