curiosa
- n books on strange or unusual subjects (especially erotica)
- Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings.
- Main content of Hunger and History is curiosa on man's long struggle, before the Industrial Revolution, to get enough to eat.
- Maps on tissue-thin paper, which could be eaten if need be, were among the curiosa of World War II, publicly shown for the first time in New York last week.