Sentence examples for antique terms from inspiring English sources

In "Oprichnik," the playful antique terms and gestures have sometimes confounded the not-to-be-envied translator.

Or more broadly it may intend the Levant (another antique term which could be usefully revived), the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean.

"I think the whole issue of a book is up for question," said Suzanne Calpestri, a librarian at the University of California at Berkeley who calls the division taking place grangerizing, which is an antique term for the clipping of book engravings.

Indeed, he said, "audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical.

NW even abuts on the territory of the "Hampstead novel" (Hampstead being geographically close however socially and spiritually distant), that antique dismissive term for novels in which middle-class people alternately gloat and lament over their privileges.

The phrase dark pattern design is pretty antique in Internet terms, though you'll likely have heard it being bandied around quite a bit of late.

In terms of antique malls, there's Chicago Antique Centre and Broadway Antique Market, which mostly focuses on midcentury stuff.

In antique sources, the term litharge denotes a variety of compounds derived from lead oxidation, and other compounds.

I've lived at a safe distance from Japan's capital for 23 years now, in Kyoto and Nara, three or four hours away by train and several centuries away in terms of their antique pasts.

The terms differ, being antique in France and ostentatious here — the old book-bindings and rustic benches on the one hand; the gilded bathrooms and five-thousand-dollar suits in America — but they are almost all, however bizarrely, questions of taste.

"I've not made many purchases lately of autographs or letters because of my big purchase of the violin," he said, adding that it is "the ultimate for me in terms of collectible antiques".