What is "period pieces"

Usage examples of "period pieces".

Beridien had been an inveterate collector of antiques, and the rooms and hallways of Greystoke were still filled with a rainbow of period pieces ranging from Federal to Chippendale to Louis XV to God only knew what.

It was decorated with period pieces of furniture: a large upholstered couch of pale peach was the single piece not of white.

She had had no intention of staying in the chorus and had prepared for a career in classical theater by reading every new play she could get her hands on and studying the history behind the old period pieces.

In fact, it wasn't until well into the 1990s that the potential of such derelict period pieces as supermarkets, Habitat stores, fast breeder reactors and battery chicken houses was fully exploited.

I saw them as period pieces, stuck there some generations before reading and writing had died out altogether and the fetters of literacy fell for ever from the world.

The furniture was all period pieces, with wide seats and low backs, but made comfortable by a plethora of voluptuous, tasseled pillows in damask, chintz, and more brocaded silk.

I like some of the British period pieces, Masterpiece Theatre, some of the A&amp.