Definition of "curio" [cu•ri•o]

• A curious or unusual object of art or piece of bric-a-brac. (noun)

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• "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"."
• "Andy Baio of Waxy. 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."
• "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."