Noun:

அருங்கலைப் பொருள்,

curios's Usage Examples:

It stimulated the curiosity of latent sensibilities, provoked fresh inquisition into the groundwork of existence, and strengthened man's self-esteem by knowledge of what men had thought and felt and done in ages when Christianity was not.

Even the splash of the anchor in the water, and the noise of the cable running out through the hawse-hole, in no way disturbed them at their occupation, or caused them to evince the slightest curiosity.

The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them.

titillate the curiosity of a medieval audience.

4), and we may mention, merely as literary curiosities, various works of a lyrical character written in two languages, Latin and French, or English and French, or even in three languages, Latin, English and French.

An inexhaustible intellectual energy and curiosity lay beneath this amiable surface.

Manget's Bibliotheca chemica curiosa (1702), are confused productions, written in an allegorical style, but full of phrases and even pages taken literally from the Greek alchemists, and citing by name various authorities of Greek alchemy.

The monument, after repeatedly resisting the violence of curiosity, was broken into in 1810 by the French soldiery; the statue was mutilated, and the yellow hair was cut from the broken skeleton, to be preserved in reliquaries and blown away by the wind.

From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local.

"Really?" said Pierre, gazing over his spectacles with curiosity and seriousness (for which Princess Mary was specially grateful to him) into Ivanushka's face, who, seeing that she was being spoken about, looked round at them all with crafty eyes.

He even produced a notebook, a sure sign of expanding curiosity.

Storage units that add beauty and function to living rooms include curios, secretaries, sideboards, china cabinets, and breakfronts.

Crowds of petty traders attend, bringing all those miscellaneous articles that can be packed into a pedlar's wallet; and the neighbouring villagers look forward to the occasion to satisfy alike their curiosity and their household wants.

Synonyms:

oddity, whatnot, collector's item, curiosity, knickknackery, showpiece, collectable, object, physical object, oddment, collectible, peculiarity, nicknack, rarity, knickknack, bric-a-brac, piece de resistance,

Antonyms:

familiarity, undue, approve, commonality, abundance,