ephemera
IPA: ɪfˈɛmɝʌ
noun
- Objects, including collectable items, that are designed to be short-lived.
- (library science) Published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use.
- (by extension) Transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved.
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Examples of "ephemera" in Sentences
- Talk about ephemera from the past … a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag:
- Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer.
- So, any ephemera from the creation of that story about cranky old Hagar comprise the literary world's version of splinters from the cross.
- The site is described as a comprehensive collection of newpaper articles, cemetery ledgers, photos, personal correspondence, obituaries and other ephemera from the Woodgate/White Lake area.
- Specialty dealers David Margolis and Jean Moss from Santa Fe, NM, specialists in ephemera, photography, and fine books; and, Terry Belanger, 2005 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Rare Book School, University of Virginia.
- The Woodgate Digitization Project is, as the site states, a "comprehensive collection of newpaper articles, cemetery ledgers, photos, personal correspondence, obituaries and other ephemera from the Woodgate/White Lake area."
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