Odditorium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Odditorium is a noun meaning A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.
Meaning
A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.
Example Sentences
Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.
Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago.
His shop had been an odditorium, its crowding walls filled to the ceiling with unfathomable, strangely charismatic products like Bay Rum and styptic pencils that would seal up cuts […].
[…] and we found passageways with queer, quaint gables, and in a draper's shop, and in constant daily use, we came upon an ancient and beautiful oak staircase really fit for a palace, and we happened upon an "odditorium," […]
Word Forms
- odditoriums
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wunderkammer, antiquarium, closet, panopticon, bazaar, kunstkammer.
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