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Definition of Curiosa
1. Noun. Books on strange or unusual subjects (especially erotica).
Definition of Curiosa
1. pornographic books [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curiosa
Literary usage of Curiosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"175 ; Peek's Desiderata curiosa, 1779, ii. 536; Nichols's Hinckley, 1782, p.
77, and App. 1787, pp. 335, 403; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, iii. ..."
2. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"William Scott's speech, moving for leave to bring in Clergy's Non-residence
Bill—curiosa felicitas of language. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"curiosa, ii, 29. See also Menage in Massepain. Good thou, save me a piece of
marchpane. ... curiosa ..."
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