The centre will also have a "lapa" for the staging of traditional dances, a small lodge to house tourists overnight and tourist-orientated businesses such as curio shops and safari companies to serve surrounding private game reserves. 'The curio is my own property, and I will do just as I please with it.'Ī Bid for Fortune or Dr. Curio A Collection by Hilton () is a global set of remarkable upscale and luxury hotels hand-picked for their unique character and personality. I mean if you look at the issues that face the next papacy and you look at them from the perspective of this curio, which is very Euro-centric, most of the cardinals are European. org shares a curio from the past - Computability, in which Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows explain the concept of home computing to the layman of 1984. Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archiveĪndy Baio of Waxy.
There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times". New York.)įourteen of the sculptures you took posses properties of a most curious and terrifying nature, as you will observe when your limbs begin to wither and your hair falls_out in patches. `` But do you know something curious '' ? she added. New York.) From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade handled magnifyingglass. n pl, -rios a small article valued as a collectors item, esp. (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona.)
The soldier answered in a curious, muffled voice, his lips barely moving. (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are.) A classic worsted weight, Far is just right. It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings_together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann 's work. The meaning of CURIO is something (such as a decorative object) considered novel, rare, or bizarre : curiosity also : an unusual or. The chainette construction of Far gives structure, definition, and warmth to this luxuriously soft fiber. (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early.) It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter_solstice. Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear- A Discussion.) A curio cabinet is a specialised type of display case, made predominantly of glass with a metal or wood framework, for presenting collections 1 of curios, like figurines or other interesting objects that invoke curiosity, and perhaps share a common theme.
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