odditorium

Definitions

A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.

Examples

“[…] 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," […]”

“Today the syndicated daytime talk⟳ show⟳ is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago.”

“Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.”

“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 […].”

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