museum piece

An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another era-she's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
AldÉRic	-	French
Ashling	['æʃliŋ]
Rauha	ROW-hah	Finnish
Ea (2)	-	Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Reza	-	Persian
Rivqah	-	Biblical Hebrew