What's the difference between curio and rarity?

Curio


Definition:

  • (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
  • (2) Even their first win in the north London derby since 1999 is a curio for the statisticians.
  • (3) • Doubles from €56 B&B, +34 913 694 643, hostalpersal.com Artistic B&B Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artsy Argentinians Paola and Rodolfo renovated a pensión in a 200-year-old building in the city’s Literary Quarter to create this snug, idiosyncratic B&B, decorated with rescued and restored furniture, curios from their world travels and Paola’s ceramics.
  • (4) On a recent Monday, the market's alleyways, flanked by rows of shops selling curios, were empty of customers.
  • (5) But without the infrastructure to produce and distribute hydrogen as a fuel, these vehicles are little more than curios.
  • (6) (Although Zschäpe’s mother later reported that she was concerned when she heard that Mundlos’s grandfather collected Nazi curios.)
  • (7) He was entitled to the jubilation, but for neutrals his triumph was no more than a statistical curio.
  • (8) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
  • (9) More a desert encampment, an assembly of mismatched seating, pallet decking, curios (skulls, art, a mannequin dressed as a pirate), it sits among shrubbery off a sandy track – coloured lights, the sounds of motorbikes and the music of the 1970s are the only clues to its existence.
  • (10) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
  • (11) He's right, of course, but it's the history and the curios that most interest Gatiss, with an examination of German expressionism bleeding into a look at postwar France's cinematic self-reflection and beyond.
  • (12) Gorgeous, snow-topped Switzerland with its adorable cuckoo clocks didn’t allow women to vote until 1971 But foot-binding is not merely a historical curio: although it was banned in 1912, it persisted in some rural areas into the 1930s, and there are still women alive in China today with the crushed arches, deformed toes and rotting folds of skin that characterised bound feet.
  • (13) And with no home stadium confirmed for the long-anticipated second New York MLS team (and the path towards one strewn with New York political obstacles), the sight of the Yankees pitching mound bisected by a touchline may be less of a curio and more of a blueprint for what Major League Soccer will initially look like when NYCFC starts play in 2015.
  • (14) Her house was like a studio, bits of art everywhere, big glass cabinet of curios and treasured possessions, a chaise longue – the works.” Her life was quieter later on and her neighbours didn’t necessarily know who Knight was or what she had achieved.
  • (15) More than £4m was raised and spent on two curios with the justification of "cultural value", yet since your Tories came to power, your nation has been shutting libraries, cutting arts funding and talking about further downsizing the BBC.
  • (16) In MLS, he had a chance to mature as a player and as a man; rather than disappear into history as a curio, the American would-be striker who had a cup of coffee in the Bundesliga.
  • (17) There are also quite a few hidden curios, such as the two newspaper cuttings reporting a dramatic incident at the Ballard home in 1959: "Three-year-old Jimmy Ballard and his sister, Fay, two, [were] taken to hospital unconscious after a disused gas pipe fractured in the nursery of their home at The Hermitage, Richmond, today [...] Mr and Mrs Ballard gave the children artificial respiration until the ambulance arrived."
  • (18) His previous film, well-received horror curio The Orphanage, showed he can handle World War Z-style shocks.
  • (19) Shops go out of business quickly, but stalwarts include The Cottage of Arts and Jewels, a dusty basement selling vintage Bollywood posters, ancient Indian maps, texts and curios; Elma’s , a quaint tea shop, complete with grandfather clock, lace lampshades and bone china; and Country Collection , an antiques shop selling rare and imaginatively reworked furniture at reasonable prices.
  • (20) Brian Cannon of the design company Microdot made one notable cassingle curio: the cassette version of Oasis's Cigarettes and Alcohol , made up to look, and open, like a packet of 20 cigarettes.

Rarity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
  • (n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that, despite its rarity, adenocarcinomas must be included in the differential diagnosis of solid renal masses in early life.
  • (2) Diagnostic difficulties were encountered due to the rarity of such infections and elusive identification of the organism with routine laboratory procedures.
  • (3) It’s now worth £4.7bn – leaving Zonneveld as a City rarity who might actually know what he’s talking about.
  • (4) This case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis emphasizes the rarity of the disease and its exceptional diagnosis in infants which relies on the pulmonary pathologic study.
  • (5) Reviewing the literature showed the rarity of the germinoma at the brainstem location.
  • (6) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
  • (7) The rarity of hepatic failure following treatment for Wilms' tumor raises the possibility of an increased susceptibility to toxic injury in the presence of AAT accumulation.
  • (8) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
  • (9) Due to the rarity of this tumor, little information exists in the literature as to its natural history, efficacy of therapy and its pathological and radiological appearance.
  • (10) They know too that the charter has the backing of every party in parliament – a constitutional rarity.
  • (11) Unusual findings included the rarity of rose spots, patients with fever as their only symptom, two patients with transient papilledema, and two others with peripheral blood smears suggestive of acute leukemia.
  • (12) Primary malignant lymphoma located in the duodenum is a rarity.
  • (13) In referring to a personal observation the authors recall the rarity of malignant degeneration of lesions of the spine caused by Paget's disease.
  • (14) The rarity of this type of hernia, without a herniary sac and accompanied by the late appearance of respiratory symptomatology, is stressed.
  • (15) None had petit mal, confirming its rarity in the elderly.
  • (16) Factors that contribute to the continuing high mortality rate of rectal perforation are its rarity, the highly infectious character of faecal contamination of the abdominal cavity or perirectal tissue, and the fact that examination often reveals little or no external trauma.
  • (17) Low frequencies were observed in both sexes for cancers of the gastro-intestinal tract and of the respiratory organs; previous reports of the rarity of gastric cancer were confirmed.
  • (18) In this case report the rarity of the causing agent, Candida parapsilosis, and its endothrix growth is accentuated.
  • (19) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
  • (20) After a review of the literature, the rarity of this association is stressed.

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