antiquer

[ an-tee-ker ]

noun

1. a person who takes a special interest in antiques; a collector of antiquities; antiquary.
2. a person who simulates antique furniture by using processes that give an appearance of age, wear, etc., to recently manufactured pieces.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antiquer¹

antique + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“I’m an antiquer, so it killed me they had to blow it up. I really wanted to go and watch.”

From Washington Times

There are Bach and his tiny, dark-haired wife piling more and more children into a series of secondhand cars and planes as he moves: from Long Beach to Maplewood, N.J., for a job as associate editor of Flying magazine; back to Long Beach to become Flying's West Coast editor; from Long Beach to Ottumwa, Iowa, to become editor of The Antiquer, a magazine about old planes.

From Time Magazine Archive

His job on The Antiquer folded.

From Time Magazine Archive

This wonderful compiler has put it all down so Mrs. Hinton, housewife, antiquer and garden-weeder not only can see this gigantic problem of limit less resources in peacetime, but can anticipate and relish the coming solution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Item, that if friend Flaccus be not a calumniator, even the rigid virtue of the antiquer Cato delighted in so stimulant a vanity as wine hot.

From Project Gutenberg