antiques

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
antique/anˈtiːk/

▶noun a decorative object that is valuable because of its age. ▶adjective

• 1 (of an object) valuable because of its age.

• 2 belonging to the distant past.

  ■ old-fashioned or outdated.

▶verb (antiques, antiquing, antiqued) make (something) resemble an antique by artificial means.

– origin C15: from L. antiquus, anticus ‘former, ancient’, from ante ‘before’.