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Here's today's word...

CURIO \kyoor-ee-oh\, noun - a valued, novel object; an object valued as a curiosity, often a collectible.

One example sentence: Tensions in his parents' home in New York and summer visits to his Boston grandfather left impressions that became, over time, fragmentary memories tinged with sadness-as when he recalls, in Redburn, the melancholy longing provoked by the miniature glass ship displayed in his grandfather's curio case. --Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His Life and Work

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