E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Museum.
The most celebrated are the British Museum in London; the Louvre at Paris; the Vatican at Rome; the Museum of Florence; that of St. Petersburg; and those of Dresden, Vienna, Munich, and Berlin.
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A walking museum. So Longinus, author of a work on The Sublime, was called. (A.D. 213273.)