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museum pieces

museum pieces is the plural of museum piece.

Meaning of museum piece

Noun

museum piece (plural museum pieces)

  1. An item worthy of being kept by a museum.
    • These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days.1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660
  2. (slang) A very old item, especially an obsolete piece of technology.
    • Jim's car is a real museum piece.

Questions about museum pieces

What is museum pieces the plural of?
Museum pieces is the plural of museum piece.

Words near museum pieces in the dictionary

  1. musetto
  2. museum
  3. museum beetle
  4. museum beetles
  5. museum piece
  6. museum pieces
  7. museum problem
  8. museum problems
  9. museum restoration
  10. museum-goer
  11. museum-goers

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