curiosa

As is the case with most pop culture curiosa, “Shōgun” only deserves partial credit or blame for escalating America’s fetishizing of Japanese style and customs.

The "curiosa felicitas" of Horace never carried him farther,—or perhaps so far.

The brothers were touring the Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of curiosa at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, garbed somewhat disappointingly in chinos and sweaters.

"A recipe from the curiosa section of my medical book," he said.

Curate.—Does he then think Horace not very choice in his words? for he seems to be severe upon the “curiosa felicitas.”